Marcuse Herbert. Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity

Transl. by Seyla Benhabib. — Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. — 406 p. — ISBN10: 0262631253; ISBN13: 978-0262631259This was Herbert Marcuse's first book on Hegel, written in the early 1930s. It provides a still unequaled Heideggerian reading of Hegel's thought that seeks the defining characteristics of "historicity" - expressing a tradition known as "phenomenological Marxism," subsequently represented by Jean Paul Sartre, among others. The book is important both for understanding Marcuse's philosophical relationship to Heidegger and for illuminating his original and creative reading of Hegel and his Hegelian brand of critical Marxism."Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity" is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.