The Dialectics of Liberation in Dark Times Marcuse's Thought in the Neoliberal Era

This book develops Marcuse’s critique of advanced industrial society and deploys it as a lens to critically analyze contemporary neoliberalism and its structural failures. In the chapters, Marcuse scholars explore three related topics: First, Marcuse’s theory as it applies to the relationship betwee...

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Other Authors: Hines, Taylor (Editor), Jansen, Peter-Erwin (Editor), Kirsch, Robert E. (Editor), Maley, Terry (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 16: Casey Robertson, Marcusean Pathways for Queer Agency through Sonic Conceptions of Noise in the Twenty-First Century
  • Chapter 17: James William Lincoln, The Unfreedom of Moral Perception during Occurrent Experience
  • Chapter 18: Peter Marcuse, From Reform Politics towards Liberation during the Suicide of Capitalism: Examples from Housing Policy
  • Afterword, Douglas Kellner
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Neoliberal Authoritarianism
  • Chapter 1: Terry Maley, Building on Marcuse: An Assessment of the New Phase of Neoliberal Despotism
  • Chapter 2: Samir Gandesha, The “Authoritarian Personality” Reconsidered: The Phantom of “Left Fascism”
  • Chapter 3: Luca Mandara, Marcuse and the Social Networkers
  • Chapter 4: Rodney Doody, The Hedonism and Asceticism of Neoliberal Subjectivity: The Crude Needs of Consumer Capitalism and its Social, Psychological, and Ecological Devastation
  • Chapter 5: Christian Garland, Turning Sense Into Nonsense and Nonsense Into Sense: Critical Theory to Refuse the Fallacy of Populism
  • Chapter 6: Lauren Langman, Refusals Redux
  • Part II: Neoliberalism and Technological Rationality
  • Chapter 7: Stefan Gandler, Multiple Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times: Reflections from a Critical Theory in Latin America
  • Chapter 8: Haggag Ali, Receptions of Herbert Marcuse’s Critical Theory: A ComparativeApproach to Telos and Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer
  • Chapter 9: Wes Furlotte, A Dialectical Critique of Pure Recognition: Settler-Colonialism within Advanced Industrial Canada
  • Chapter 10: Nicole K. Mayberry, Color-Blind Racism and One-Dimensionality: Imagining Marcusean Conditions of Freedom Through the Black Radical Tradition
  • Chapter 11: Taylor Hines, Artificial Reverie and Administered Negativity
  • Chapter 12: Robert E. Kirsch, Reigniting Racket Theory: Horkheimer’s Unfinished Project and Marcuse’s Affinity for American Institutionalism
  • Part III: Socialism(s): Still the Proper Response
  • Chapter 13: Peter-Erwin Jansen, Human Rights: A Concrete Utopian Concept
  • Chapter 14: Charles Reitz, Revolutionary Ecological Liberation: EarthCommonWealth
  • Chapter 15: Imaculada Kangussu, 2020: Nature Said, “Stop”