Marcuse in the Twenty-First Century

Radical Politics, Critical Theory, and Revolutionary Praxis
Herausgeber: Kirsch, Robert; Surak, Sarah

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Produktbeschreibung

This book engages critical theorist and philosopher Herbert Marcuse's urgent call to imagine a better world. It originally published as a special issue in New Political Science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9780367892555
• ISBN-10: 0367892553
• Artikelnr.: 58482266

Autorenporträt

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 (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 available in 2018 (Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Rationality of Philosophy 3. When Liberation
Movements Become One-Dimensional: On Critical Theory and Intersectionality
4. Beyond the One-Dimensional University: A Marcusean Critique of Outcomes
Assessment 5. Critical Pedagogy in the Neoliberal University: Reflections
on the 2015 York University Strike through a Marcusean Lens 6. The
Counterrevolutionary Campus: Herbert Marcuse and the Suppression of Student
Protest Movements 7. Displaying Garbage: Installations as Spaces of
Domination and Resistance 8. Herbert's Herbivore: One-Dimensional Society
and the Possibility of Radical Vegetarianism 9. Are We the Walking Dead?
Zombie Apocalypse as Liberatory Art 10. Marcuse: A Critic in
Counterrevolutionary Times