Introduction : the critical theory of Herbert Marcuse
Part I. Political critique. The individual in the Great Society ; Remarks on a redefinition of culture ; Repressive tolerance
Part II. Marxism, existentialism, and psychoanalysis. A note on the dialectic ; The foundations of historical materialism ; Heidegger's politics, an interview with Herbert Marcuse ; Sartre's existentialism ; Freedom and Freud's theory of instincts
Part III. Philosophical critique. Philosophical interlude ; The affirmative character of culture ; Nature and revolution.