Marcuse : from the New Left to the Next Left / edited by John Bokina and Timothy J. Lukes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bokina, John, Editor.

Contributor:

Lukes, Timothy J., editor.

Bokina, John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Political science.

Marcuse, Herbert, 1898-1979.

Marcuse, Herbert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Press of Kansas 1994

Lawrence : Univ. Press of Kansas, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marcuse brings back to center stage one of the most celebrated and controversial philosophers of the turbulent 1960s, the man Time magazine called the "guru of the New Left."In Reason and Revolution, Eros and Civilization, OneDimensional Man, and other notable works, Herbert Marcuse crystallized the essence of counterculture philosophy. His neoMarxist critique of Western capitalism was widely embraced by revolutionaries, "hippies," and an entire generation of academics who condemned political, economic, and sexual repression in American society. So complete was Marcuse's identification with the New Left that, with its demise, he and his works fell out of favor. But, as this volume persuasively demonstrates, Marcuse remains vitally relevant for us today.Returning to Marcuse may recall the clash of idealistic exuberance and tragic violence associated with Woodstock, HaightAshbury, the Vietnam War, 1968 Democratic Convention, Kent State, and Earth Day, as well as the passionate voices of antiwar and civil rights protesters, environmentalists, feminists, and free love advocates. But this volume does not cater to the simplistic nostalgia of aging babyboomers.Fifteen leading Marcuse scholars, including Marcuse's son Peter, assess the philosopher's ideas in the radically different theoretical and political contexts of the 1990s. The range of topics covered is distinctly contemporary—Foucault and postmodern theories, analytical Marxism and the demise of the Soviet Union, women's studies and feminist psychoanalytic theory, aesthetic consciousness and postmodern art, radical ecology and cybernetic technology—and includes Douglas Kellner's revealing first look at the unpublished manuscripts in the Marcuse Archives in Frankfurt.Sure to excite liberal as well as irritate conservative culture warriors, these provocative essays illuminate the outlines of a Marcuse revival and the Next Left as both emerge to confront the complex challenges of our times.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface to Kansas Open Books Edition

Marcuse Revisited: An Introduction, John Bokina

Part I: From New to Post

Marcuse in Postmodernity, Ben Agger

Revisiting Marcuse with Foucault, Paul Breines

Marcuse on Real Existing Socialism, Paul Marcuse

Marcuse and Analytical Marxism, Terrell Carver

Part II: Psychoanalysis and Feminism

Marcuse, the Women's Movement, and Women's Studies, Trudy Steuernagel

The Missing Dimension, Isaac D. Balbus

Psychoanalytic Feminism in the Wake of Marcuse, Gad Horowitz

Marx, Marcuse, and Psychoanalysis, C. Fred Alford

Part III: Artful Thinking

The Persistence of Passionate Subjectivity, Shierry Weber Nicholsen

Surveying The Aesthetic Dimension at the Death of Postmodernism, Carol Becker

Part IV: Ecofascists and Cyberpunks

Marcuse and Ecology, Timothy W. Luke

The Critique of Technology, Andrew Feenberg

Mechanical Reproduction in the Age of Art, Timothy J. Lukes

Part V: Revisiting Marcuse

A Marcuse Renaissance?, Douglas Kellner

List of Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780700630738

0700630732

OCLC:

1252623571