The great refusal : Herbert Marcuse and contemporary social movements / with a foreword by Angela Y. Davis ; edited by Andrew T. Lamas, Todd Wolfson, and Peter N. Funke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lamas, Andrew T., 1954- editor.

ebrary, Inc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marcuse, Herbert, 1898-1979.

Marcuse, Herbert.

Social movements--History--21st century.

Social movements.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Bouazizi's Refusal and Ours: Critical Reflections on the Great Refusal and Contemporary Social Movements / Peter N. Funke Funke, Peter N., Andrew T. Lamas Lamas, Andrew T., Todd Wolfson Wolfson, Todd 1

Part I Mapping Coordinates

2 Marcuse in the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism: Revisiting the Occupation / Michael Forman Forman, Michael 29

3 Negating That Which Negates Us: Marcuse, Critical Theory, and the New Politics of Refusal / Christian Garland Garland, Christian 55

4 Occupying and Refusing Radically: The Deprived and the Dissatisfied Transforming the World / Peter Marcuse Marcuse, Peter 66

Part II Liberating Resistance

5 Asia's Unknown Uprisings / George Katsiaficas Katsiaficas, George 83

6 Chinese Workers in Global Production and Local Resistance / Jenny Chan Chan, Jenny 98

7 Queer Critique, Queer Refusal / Heather Love Love, Heather 118

8 Mic Check! The New Sensibility Speaks / Imaculada Kangussu Kangussu, Imaculada, Filip Kovacevic Kovacevic, Filip, Andrew T. Lamas Lamas, Andrew T. 132

Part III Protesting Violence

9 The Work of Violence in the Age of Repressive Desublimation / AK Thompson Thompson, AK 159

10 Neutrality and Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Hélder Camara on the Violence of Tolerance / Sarah Lynn Kleeb Kleeb, Sarah Lynn 176

11 Democracy by Day, Police State by Night: What the Eviction of Occupy Philadelphia Revealed about Policing in the United States / Toorjo Ghose Ghose, Toorjo 193

Part IV Communicating Resistance

12 Insurrection 2011: Great Refusals from the Arab Uprisings through Occupy Everywhere / Douglas Kellner Kellner, Douglas 211

13 Beyond One-Dimensionality / Andrew Feenberg Feenberg, Andrew 229

14 Herbert Marcuse and the Dialectics of Social Media / Christian Fuchs Fuchs, Christian 241

15 Inklings of the Great Refusal: Echoes of Marcuse's Post-technological Rationality Today / Marcelo Vieta Vieta, Marcelo 258

Part V Contesting Theories

16 Hope and Catastrophe: Messianism in Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse / Joan Braune Braune, Joan 283

17 The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse Correspondence: Crystallization of Two Marxist Traditions / Russell Rockwell Rockwell, Russell, Kevin B. Anderson Anderson, Kevin B. 299

18 The Existential Dimension of the Great Refusal: Marcuse, Fanon, Habermas / Martin Beck Matuštik Matuštik, Martin Beck 313

19 A Critical Praxis from the Americas: Thinking about the Zapatistas in Chiapas with Herbert Marcuse, Bolivar Echeverria, and Adolfo Sanchez Vazquez / Stefan Gandler Gandler, Stefan 329

20 Where Is the Outrage? The State, Subjectivity, and Our Collective Future / Stanley Aronowitz Aronowitz, Stanley 343

21 From Great Refusals to Wars of Position: Marcuse, Gramsci, and Social Mobilization / Lauren Langman Langman, Lauren 367.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439913055

1439913056

Publisher Number:

99970335957

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