[Ads-l] Request help with Herbert Marcuse quotation in The Listener

ADSGarson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Sat Aug 26 21:34:13 UTC 2023


Many thanks to Stephen Goranson who successfully found the pertinent
article and relayed the details to me off-list. I will compose a QI
article in the future.
Garson

On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 2:46 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A correspondent asked me to investigate a quotation attributed to
> German-American philosopher Herbert Marcuse. Google Books shows a
> snippet match in "The Listener". I am hoping someone with access to
> the "The Listener" database will search for this quotation and send me
> the PDF of the pertinent article together with the full metadata.
>
> It appears that the quotation appeared in the main body of the text.
> In addition, a somewhat different streamlined version of the quotation
> appeared as a pull quote.
>
> Year: 1978 (one citation claims year was 1970)
> Periodical: The Listener
> Article title unknown (Possibly an interview with Herbert Marcuse)
> Article author unknown
> Volume 99 (According to GB snippet)
> Page 170 and 171 (According to GB snippet)
>
> [Begin snippet excerpt]
> For example, not every kind of trouble or problem someone has with his
> girlfriend or boyfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of
> production.
> [End snippet excerpt]
>
> [Begin snippet excerpt]
> Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due
> to the capitalist mode of production.
> [End snippet excerpt]
>
> Thanks for your help
> Garson O’Toole

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