1st Edition
The Marcusean Mind
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was a member of the Frankfurt School, a leading figure of 1960s counter-culture, and a fundamental character for the New Left. His ideas and theories, inspired by a rich fusion of Marxian and Freudian thought, exert a strong influence on contemporary thinking about activism, emancipation, and political resistance. He was also a student of Martin Heidegger in the late 1920s and engaged deeply with philosophy throughout his career.
The Marcusean Mind is an outstanding survey and assessment of Marcuse's thought. Beginning with a thorough introduction to Marcuse's life and work, thirty-nine chapters by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors are organised into five clear parts:
- Intellectual Ecosystems of Marcuse
- Reason and Sensibilities
- Futures and Utopias
- Contemporary Movements
- Counterrevolutions, Neo-Liberalism, and Fascism
These sections each contain a short introduction, after which Marcusean ideas are brought to bear on many key contemporary debates and issues across the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
Including a Foreword by Craig Calhoun and an Afterword by Douglas Kellner, The Marcusean Mind is a superb resource for anyone interested in Marcuse's thought and its legacy. It is valuable reading for students of contemporary political theory, activism, philosophy, sociology, media and cultural studies, critical legal studies, and race and gender studies.
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 to English 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 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 His 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 Walker
18. Exploring Marcusean Feminist Utopian Possibilities: 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 Temptations of a Post-Work Imaginary Kenneth Rösen and Alexander Kurunczi
Part 4: Contemporary Movements
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, Neo-Liberalism, 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
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.
