A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The importance of a Machiavelli, a Hobbes, or a Marx is not primarily intellectual but catharctic. They don’t offer conceptual systems so much as emotional strategies.
In Archival manuscript. “Catharsis and Hallucination from Machiavelli to Marx” quoted in Letters p 157 in a footnote by WilliamToye.
Quote #3663
Chapters: Marx, Karl | Philosophy
↪ Also at #5360
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