Art, Alienation, and the Humanities: A Critical Engagement with Herbert Marcuse

Illustrates how Marcuse's theory sheds new light on current debates in both education and society involving issues of multiculturalism, postmodernism, civic education, the "culture wars," critical thinking, and critical literacy.
Winner of the 2002 American Educational Studies Association's Critics' Choice Award
By examining the aesthetic, social, and educational philosophy of Herbert Marcuse, the author documents and demonstrates the structure and movement of Marcuse's thought on art, alienation, and the humanities. Reitz's work stresses the centrality of Marcuse's argument that the arts and humanities may act as disalienating educational forces.

About the author

Charles Reitz is Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of Service Learning at Kansas City Kansas Community College.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Reitz
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2000
• EAN: 9780791444610
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-4461-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Weight: 599 g
• Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy; Suny the Philosophy of the Soc
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works