The Promesse du Bonheur:The Promesse du Bonheur: Marcuse’s Political Eros—Ecosocialism as the Aesthetic Form of Commonwealth Happiness
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This is an essay on Marcuse's theory of the political Eros which has the power to help us attain our happiness-in-common by learning to live with dignity, freedom, and gratitude on planet Earth. Ecosocialism, in Marcuse’s view, possesses the erotic potential to bring beauty and sensuous satisfaction to an abundant socio-economic order, fulfilling our natural and political essence as human beings.
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