The Marcusean Mind by Altheman C. Santos, Eduardo; Fast, Jina; Mayberry, Nicole K.;

Short description:

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, sociology, media and cultural studies, critical legal studies, and race and gender studies.

Long description:

Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) was a member of the Frankfurt School, a leading figure of 1960s counterculture, 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, 39 chapters by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors are organized into five clear parts:

• Intellectual Ecosystems of Marcuse


• Reason and Sensibilities


• Futures and Utopias


• Contemporary Movements


• Counterrevolutions, Neoliberalism, 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.

Table of Contents:

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  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, 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  39. From Advanced Industrial Society to Neoliberalism: The Dialectics of Integration and Disintegration Eduardo Altheman C. Santos  Afterword: The Global Marcuse Douglas Kellner.  Index