Marcuse in the Twenty-First Century
This book engages the critical theory of political philosopher Herbert Marcuse to imagine spaces of resistance and liberation from the repressive forces of late capitalism. Marcuse, an influential counterculture voice in the 1960s, highlighted the smooth democratic unfreedom of postwar capitalism, a critique that is well adapted to the current context. The compilation begins with a previously unpublished lecture delivered by Marcuse in 1966 addressing the inadequacy of philosophy in its current form, arguing how it may be a force for liberation and social change. This lecture provides a theoretical mandate for the volumes original contributions from international scholars engaging how topics such as higher education, aesthetics, and political organization can contribute to the project of building a critical rationality for a qualitatively better world, offering an alternative to the bleak landscape of neoliberalism. The chapters in this volume as whole engage the current context with an urgency appropriate to the problems facing an encroaching authoritarianism in political society with an interdisciplinary lens that speaks to the complexity of the problems facing modern society.
This book was originally published as a special issue of New Political Science.
Robert Kirsch is an Assistant Professor in the faculty of Leadership and Interdisciplinary Studies at Arizona State University, USA. His research focuses on theories of critical political economy in advanced industrial society, particularly how organizational and institutional arrangements reinforce oppressive social relations. He is the co-author of the forthcoming book Critical Leadership Theory: Integrating Transdisciplinary Perspectives (Springer, 2018).
Sarah Surak holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Environmental Studies at Salisbury University, USA. Her research, spanning the topics of environmental political theory, social theory, and critical public administration, has appeared in journals such as New Political Science and Capitalism Nature Socialism. Her forthcoming book, Governing Waste: Politics, Process, and Public Administration will be published in 2018 by Routledge.
Marcuse in the Twenty-First Century
Radical Politics, Critical Theory, and Revolutionary Praxis
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Robert Kirsch and Sarah Surak
First published 2018
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in New Political Science, volume 38, issue 4 (December 2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Introduction
Robert Kirsch and Sarah Surak
New Political Science, volume 38, issue 4 (December 2016), pp. 455464
Chapter 2
The Rationality of Philosophy
Herbert Marcuse
New Political Science, volume 38, issue 4 (December 2016), pp. 476484
Chapter 3
Conference Plenary: When Liberation Movements Become One-Dimensional: On Critical Theory and Intersectionality
Arnold L. Farr, Amahlia L. Perry-Farr and Louisa N. Perry-Farr
New Political Science, volume 38, issue 4 (December 2016), pp. 465475
Chapter 4
Beyond the One-Dimensional University: A Marcusean Critique of Outcomes Assessment
Brandon Absher
New Political Science, volume 38, issue 4 (December 2016), pp. 485500
Chapter 5
Critical Pedagogy in the Neoliberal University: Reflections on the 2015 York University Strike through a Marcusean Lens
Dean Caivano, Rodney Doody, Terry Maley and Chris Vandenberg
New Political Science, volume 38, issue 4 (December 2016), pp. 501515
Chapter 6
The Counterrevolutionary Campus: Herbert Marcuse and the Suppression of Student Protest Movements
Bryant William Sculos and Sean Noah Walsh
New Political Science, volume 38, issue 4 (December 2016), pp. 516532
Chapter 7
Displaying Garbage: Installations as Spaces of Domination and Resistance
Sarah Surak
New Political Science, volume 38, issue 4 (December 2016), pp. 533546
Chapter 8
Herberts Herbivore: One-Dimensional Society and the Possibility of Radical Vegetarianism
Katherine E. Young
New Political Science, volume 38, issue 4 (December 2016), pp. 547560
Chapter 9
Are We the Walking Dead? Zombie Apocalypse as Liberatory Art
Nancy D. Wadsworth
New Political Science, volume 38, issue 4 (December 2016), pp. 561581
Chapter 10
Marcuse: A Critic in Counterrevolutionary Times
Silvio Ricardo Gomes Carneiro
New Political Science, volume 38, issue 4 (December 2016), pp. 582597
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Notes on Contributors
Brandon Absher is an Assistant Professor at DYouville College in the Department of Liberal Arts, USA. His primary research is in twentieth-century Continental philosophy with a special emphasis on the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein and their intersections with Political and Social Theory. He also has interests in environmental philosophy and in nineteenth-century German philosophy.
Dean Caivano is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on radical democracy, early American political thought, and emancipatory politics.
Silvio Carneiro is Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of ABC, Brazil. His PhD thesis, Power over life: Marcuse and biopolitics (2014), focuses on contemporary political philosophy. He currently serves as a research member of NEXOS: Critical Theory and Interdisciplinary Researches, an organization engaging critical pedagogy in technological societies.
