Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader

John Abromeit, W. Mark Cobb

Routledge, Jun 3, 2014 - Philosophy - 288 pages

The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader is a collection of brand new papers by seventeen Marcuse scholars, which provides a comprehensive reassessment of the relevance of Marcuse's critical theory at the beginning of the 21st century.
Although best known for his reputation in critical theory, Herbert Marcuse's work has had impact on areas as diverse as politics, technology, aesthetics, psychoanalysis and ecology. This collection addresses the contemporary relevance of Marcuse's work in this broad variety of fields and from an international perspective.
In Part One, veteran scholars of Marcuse and the Frankfurt school examine the legacy of various specific areas of Marcuse's thought, including the quest for radical subjectivity, the maternal ethic and the negative dialectics of imagination. Part Two focuses on a very new trend in Marcuse scholarship: the link between Marcuse's ideas and environmental thought. The third part of this collection is dedicated to the work of younger Marcuse scholars, with the aim of documenting Marcuse's reception among the next generation of critical theorists. The final section of the book contains recollections on Marcuse's person rather than his critical theory, including an informative look back over his life by his son, Peter.

Contents

• Part I: 41
• the Catastrophe and Redemption: 67
• Marcuse and the Quest for Radical Subjectivity: 81
• Marcuses Maternal Ethic: 100
• Marcuses Negative Dialectics of Imagination: 114
• Herbert Marcuses Critical Encounter with Martin Heidegger: 131
• Some Remarks on Marcuses: 152
• Marcuses Academic Reception: 163
• Marcuse Habermas and the Critique of Technology: 188
• The Fate of Emancipated Subjectivity: 209
• Part III: 225
• Marcuses Ecological Critique and the American: 236
• Marcuse and the New Science: 240
• Herbert Marcuses Identity: 249

About the author

John Abromeit is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-editor of Herbert Marcuse: Heideggerian Marxism (2004).
W. Mark Cobb is Professor of Philosophy at Pensacola Junior College, and a Ph.D. candidate in the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader
• Editors: John Abromeit, W. Mark Cobb
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Routledge, 2014
• ISBN: 1134700490, 9781134700493
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / Environmental; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Movements / Critical Theory; Philosophy / Political