Herbert Marcuse : a critical reader / edited by John Abromeit and W. Mark Cobb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abromeit, John, 1970-

Cobb, W. Mark (William Mark), 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marcuse, Herbert, 1898-1979.

Marcuse, Herbert.

Physical Description:

xi, 274 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

"Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader" is a collection of brand new papers by seventeen Marcuse scholars, which provides a comprehensive reassessment of the relevance of Marcuse's critical theory at the beginning of the 21st century. Although best known for his reputation in critical theory, Herbert Marcuse's work has had impact on areas as diverse as politics, technology, aesthetics, psychoanalysis and ecology. This collection addresses the contemporary relevance of Marcuse's work in this broad variety of fields and from an international perspective.

Contents:

Marcuse's legacies / Angela Y. Davis

The American experience of the critical theorists / Detlev Claussen

Heidegger and Marcuse : the catastrophe and redemption of technology / Andrew Feenberg

Marcuse and the quest for radical subjectivity / Douglas Kellner

Marcuse's maternal ethic / John O'Neill

Marcuse's negative dialectics of imagination / Gérard Raulet

Herbert Marcuse's critical encounter with Martin Heidegger, 1927-33 / John Abromeit

The theoretical place of Utopia : some remarks on Marcuse's dual anthropology / Stephan Bundschuh

Diatribes and distortions : Marcuse's academic reception / W. Mark Cobb

Marcuse, Habermas, and the critique of technology / Samir Gandesha

The fate of emancipated subjectivity / Michael Werz

Marcuse's deep-social ecology and the future of utopian environmentalism / Andrew Light

Marcuse's ecological critique and the American environmental movement / Tim Luke

Marcuse and the "new science" / Steven Vogel

Herbert Marcuse's "identity" / Peter Marcuse

Encountering Marcuse / Carl E. Schorske.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415289092

0415289106

OCLC:

51966212