What to Read After Eros and Civilization
Readers who loved Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Eros and Civilization is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Eros and Civilization
The sublime object of ideology
Minima Moralia
Lenin and philosophy, and other essays.
Beyond the pleasure principle
The mass psychology of fascism
The philosophical discourse of modernity
Eclipse of reason
One-Dimensional Man
Man for Himself
Eroticism
The sane society
Specters of Marx
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci.
Empire
The culture industry
An essay on liberation.
Différence et répétition
Grundrisse.
Reflections
Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism
Ethics
Homo sacer
Truth and method