The Marcusean Mind

Foreword Craig Calhoun

Introduction Eduardo Altheman C. Santos, Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry, and Sid Simpson

Part 1: Intellectual Ecosystems of Marcuse

Introduction to Part 1: Critical Constellations: Herbert Marcuse and His Intellectual Ecosystem Sid Simpson

1. What is Immanent Critique? Marcuse’s Critical Theory of Society Jeta Mulaj

2. Leo Löwenthal – Herbert Marcuse: Friendship and Critical Thought as Concrete Utopia Peter-Erwin Jansen and Inka Engel (Translated from German by Eduardo Altheman C. Santos)

3. Angela Y. Davis: From Icon to Critical Theorist Rashad Shabazz

4. Marcuse, the American Robert Kirsch

5. Marcuse's Critique of Technology Today Andrew Feenberg

6. Herbert Marcuse and the Post-Colonial: Missed Connections with Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, and Aimé Césaire Sid Simpson

7. Reflecting on Lélia Gonzalez and Herbert Marcuse Stefan Klein

8. Marcuse, Feminism, and Intersectionality Jina Fast

Part 2: Reason and Sensibilities

Introduction to Part 2: A Revolution of Reason Nicole K. Mayberry and Sid Simpson

9. Marcusean Readings of Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy Juliano Bonamigo and Ferreira de Souza

10. Surplus-Aggression and Happy Consciousness: Marcuse and Hegel on the Second Nature of Advanced Industrial Society Wes Furlotte

11. Dialectics of Domination and Eros: Herbert Marcuse and the Critique of Technological Rationality Sid Simpson

12. Marcuse’s Emancipatory Model and Its Critics Maria Clara Togeiro

13. Herbert Marcuse and the West German Student Movement Meike Gerber, Emanuel Kapfinger, and Julian Volz

14. Herbert Marcuse and the Aesthetic Dimension of Popular Music Cristina Parapar

15. Capitalism and Aesthetic Socialism at the Time of Climate Breakdown Luca Mandara

Part 3: Futures and Utopias

Introduction to Part 3: What Can the Future Be? Jina Fast

16. Marcuse and Utopian Possibilities Emre Çetin Gürer

17. Built for Reason or Rationality? Marcuse and Artificial Intelligence Margath A. Walker

18. Exploring Marcusean Feminism: The Gendered Impact of Technological Rationality Nuzhat Khurshid

19. Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home as Marcusean Art Javier Sethness

20. Marcuse's "Catastrophe of Liberation" for the Anthropocene Jonathon Catlin

21. Marcuse and the Temptations of a Post-Work Imaginary Alexander Kurunczi and Kenneth Rösen

Part 4: Contemporary Movements

Introduction to Part 4: Contemporary Movements: Ruptures in the Establishment Nicole K. Mayberry and Jina Fast

22. Spatializing One Dimensionality and Roe V. Wade Nicole K. Mayberry

23. Beyond the Performance Principle: Marcuse and the Modern Work Ethic Caroline Nielson and Christophe Premat

24. Marcuse's Refusal of Capitalism Sergio Bedoya-Cortés and Germán Aristizábal Jara

25. Extinction Rebellion: A Great Refusal for the Anthropocene Rory Varrato

26. Marcuse and Fromm Maor Levitin

27. Law and Order: Rethinking Marcuse’s Legacy for Abolitionist Politics Lucien Ferguson

28. Reforms and Revolution: Implications of Germany's Last Generation René Bünnagel

29. Progress for Whom? Herbert Marcuse and Popular Feminism in Brazil Isabel Loureiro

Part 5: Counterrevolutions, Neoliberalism, and Fascism

Introduction to Part 5: An Era of Counterrevolutions Eduardo Altheman C. Santos

30. Global Counterrevolution as Uneven Fascist Development Tyler James Olsen and Robinson Torres-Salinas

31. Fascism Now and Then – Herbert Marcuse's Legacies for the Critique of Far-Right Authoritarianism Eduardo Altheman C. Santos

32. Herbert Marcuse and the Dialectics of Liberation in the Age of Trump John Abromeit

33. Repressive Tolerance Jina Fast

34. Revisiting Marcuse on Repressive Tolerance: A Twenty-First Century Retrospective David Ingram

35. What Marcuse Strikes Back Against – and For Terry Maley

36. False Needs and Artificial Intelligence Matthew Lucky

37. Herbert Marcuse and America’s Cultural Revolution Craig Calhoun

38. 21st Century One-Dimensionality: Big Tech-nological Rationality, Digital Culture Industry, and Platform Postmodernity Bruna Della Torre

39. From Advanced Industrial Society to Neoliberalism: The Dialectics of Integration and Disintegration Eduardo Altheman C. Santos

Afterword: The Global Marcuse Douglas Kellner.

Index

Biography

Eduardo Altheman C. Santos is a post-doctoral fellow in sociology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Jina Fast is the SHIFT Professor of Applied Ethics and the Common Good at Hampshire College in Amherst, USA.

Nicole K. Mayberry is Assistant Research Professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University, USA.

Sid Simpson is Assistant Professor of Politics at The University of the South in Sewanee, USA.