Coupling coefficients for coupled-cavity lasers

We derive simple, analytic formulas for the field coupling coefficients in a two-section coupled-cavity laser using a local field rate equation treatment. We show that there is a correction to the heuristic formulas based on power flow calculated by Marcuse; the correction is in agreement with numerical calculations from a coupled-mode approach

Situating Martin Heidegger’s claim to a “productive dialogue” with Marxism

This critical review aims to more fully situate the claim Martin Heidegger makes in ‘Letter on Humanism’ that a “productive dialogue” between his work and that of Karl Marx is possible. The prompt for this is Paul Laurence Hemming’s recently published Heidegger and Marx: A Productive Dialogue over the Language of Humanism (2013) which omits to fully account for the historical situation which motivated Heidegger’s seemingly positive endorsement of Marxism. This piece will show that there were significant external factors which influenced Heidegger’s claim and that, when seen within his broader corpus, these particular comments in “Letter on Humanism” are evidently disingenuous, given that his general opinion of Marxism can only be described as vitriolic. Any attempt to explore how such a “productive dialogue” could be construed must fully contextualise Heidegger’s claim for it. This piece will aim to do that, and more broadly explore Heidegger’s general opinion of Marxism

Heideggerian Marxism

An extended review of the English collection of Marcuse's essays and interviews on Heidegger that addresses the philosophical basis of a synthesis of Marx and Heidegger

Body, Sensuousness, Eros and the New Aesthetic Order from Schiller to Rushdie

In the present article, I look into the culture-building power of Eros from Schiller’s ideas of “the aesthetic state of mind” in Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, through the Pre-Raphaelites’ eroticism to the nineteenthcentury fin de siècle aestheticized homoeroticism and beyond. I argue that eroticism is a reaction to the increasing sense of alienation brought about by bourgeois modernity. The “moments” and texts used to illustrate the thesis that eroticism shaped an alternative order are far from exhausting a very large list which could add nuances to the argument. The body is one of the essential aspects tackled, since eroticism cannot be conceived in its absence. The body may be an object of desire around which imagination weaves its yarn, or a blank page to be inscribed, or a danger zone, or a hypertrophied space projected by the lover’s longing for fusion. Eroticism in Salman Rushdie’s novels is the focus of my approach after a survey of some landmarks of erotic imagination. I argue that his novels are a new stage of the imagination infused by Eros. The article probes into how two centuries of aesthetic modernity have been shaped by the reality principle proposed by Schiller and how that essentially erotic model has suffered changes in time

J'Marcuse : La tarea intelectual de Herbert Marcuse ante la sociedad unidimensional

El propósito de la ponencia es reconstruir el vínculo entre el derrotero teórico de Herbert Marcuse y su diagnóstico de la sociedad norteamericana. Más específicamente, el objetivo es comprender las versiones contrastantes de Estados Unidos que conviven en la obra del autor a la luz de su preocupación por el papel de la teoría crítica en los procesos de transformación social. En primer término, se examina el lugar preponderante que ocupa Estados Unidos en el estudio de las sociedades industriales avanzadas emprendido por Marcuse en El hombre unidimensional. En esta sección, se presta particular atención al problema de la vigencia de la teoría crítica en el marco de una sociedad que, como la norteamericana, parece capaz de fagocitar las fuerzas tendientes al cambio social. En segundo término, la ponencia analiza cómo la irrupción de nuevas corrientes contestatarias en la escena cultural y política norteamericana modificó la visión de Marcuse sobre los Estados Unidos, así como las reformulaciones conceptuales implicadas en ese viraje. Para finalizar, la deriva intelectual y política de Marcuse por Estados Unidos se coteja con la de Theodor W. Adorno, propiciando una reflexión acerca de sus modos contrastantes de comprender y ejercer la teoría crític

The Revolution Will Be Televised But Not Supported: Student Protest at Marquette University

This project examines the factors that affect the presence of student activism and student protest at Marquette University. The current social and political environment of the United States has created an exigence to discuss how students at Marquette critique their surroundings. Data is collected from a variety of sources including the author’s auto-ethnography, a review of historical and scholarly data, institutional data, and student and faculty interviews. Overall, the data shows that student protest and student activism at Marquette University exists amid a series of conflicting influences. The prioritization of donor-based funding and positive publicity, the ambiguity in the meaning of Marquette values, and the prevalence of repressive tolerance create an environment in which meaningful student activism is stifled.https://epublications.marquette.edu/english_3210ur/1036/thumbnail.jp

Spartan Daily, March 13, 1972

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