Art, alienation, and the humanities : a critical engagement with Herbert Marcuse / Charles Reitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reitz, Charles, author.

Series:

SUNY series in philosophy of education.

SUNY series, the philosophy of education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Marcuse, Herbert, 1898-1979--Aesthetics.

Marcuse, Herbert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2000]

Summary:

Winner of the 2002 American Educational Studies Association's Critics' Choice AwardBy examining the aesthetic, social, and educational philosophy of Herbert Marcuse, the author documents and demonstrates the structure and movement of Marcuse's thought on art, alienation, and the humanities. Reitz's work stresses the centrality of Marcuse's argument that the arts and humanities may act as disalienating educational forces.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

Recalling Marcuse: Art, Alienation, and the Humanities

Literary Art and Bildung: Marcuse’s Early Works

The Emergent Critical Theory of Alienation: The Laws of Beauty versus the Law of the Thing

The Emergent Critical Theory of Art: Marcuse’s Middle Period

Marcuse’s Aesthetic Ontology

Imagination, Death, and Educational Reminiscence

Alienation and Art in the One-Dimensional Society

Art Against Alienation: Aesthetic Education as Political Praxis

Art as Alienation: Marcuse’s “Turn” and Return

The Future—Liberating the Critical in Critical Theory

Appendix Charter 2000: A Comprehensive Political Platform

Notes

Glossary of Selected Foreign Terms and Phrases

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-324) and index.

ISBN:

9780791493151

0791493156