Core Readings
Herbert Marcuse, Reason and Revolution (Boston: Beacon Press, 1941), please focus on the Prefaces, pp 1-30; 62-251; and 389-421.
Herbert Marcuse, Hegel’s Ontology and the Theory of Historicity, trans. Seyla Benhabib (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987 [1932])
Herbert Marcuse, “Philosophy and Critical Theory,” pp. 99-118, in Negations, trans. Jeremy Shapiro (Penguin, 1968)
Additional Marcuse Readings
Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964)
Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969)
Resources
Seyla Benhabib’s introduction to Marcuse’s 1932 work, Hegel’s Ontology and the Theory of Historicity.
Robert B. Pippin, “Marcuse on Hegel and Historicity,” Philosophical Forum 16 (3):180 (1985)
Interview with Herbert Marcuse (with Bryan Magee, 1977)