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This book develops Marcuse's critique of advanced industrial society and deploys it as a lens to critically analyze contemporary neoliberalism and its structural failures. In the chapters, Marcuse scholars explore three related topics: First, Marcuse's theory as it applies to the relationship between neoliberalism and authoritarianism, including both the historical relationship between the two and the modern re-emergence of authoritarianism and nationalism in neoliberal states today. Second, a re-examination of the relationship between neoliberal subjectivity and technological rationality that seeks to understand the stabilizing forces of neoliberal society and the way these forces register at the level of thought. Third and finally, Marcuse's conception of socialism in conversation with contemporary neoliberal rationality, and ways in which alternatives to the status quo remain possible. Together, this volume contributes to recent discussions of neoliberalism and contribute to thedevelopment of Marcuse scholarship.
List of contents
Introduction.- Part I: Neoliberal Authoritarianism.- Chapter 1: Terry Maley, Building on Marcuse: An Assessment of the New Phase of Neoliberal Despotism.- Chapter 2: Samir Gandesha, The "Authoritarian Personality" Reconsidered: The Phantom of "Left Fascism".- Chapter 3: Luca Mandara, Marcuse and the Social Networkers.- Chapter 4: Rodney Doody, The Hedonism and Asceticism of Neoliberal Subjectivity: The Crude Needs of Consumer Capitalism and its Social, Psychological, and Ecological Devastation.- Chapter 5: Christian Garland, Turning Sense Into Nonsense and Nonsense Into Sense: Critical Theory to Refuse the Fallacy of Populism.- Chapter 6: Lauren Langman, Refusals Redux.- Part II: Neoliberalism and Technological Rationality.- Chapter 7: Stefan Gandler, Multiple Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times: Reflections from a Critical Theory in Latin America.- Chapter 8: Haggag Ali, Receptions of Herbert Marcuse's Critical Theory: A ComparativeApproach to Telos and Al Fekr Al Mo'aser.- Chapter 9: Wes Furlotte, A Dialectical Critique of Pure Recognition: Settler-Colonialism within Advanced Industrial Canada.- Chapter 10: Nicole K. Mayberry, Color-Blind Racism and One-Dimensionality: Imagining Marcusean Conditions of Freedom Through the Black Radical Tradition.- Chapter 11: Taylor Hines, Artificial Reverie and Administered Negativity.- Chapter 12: Robert E. Kirsch, Reigniting Racket Theory: Horkheimer's Unfinished Project and Marcuse's Affinity for American Institutionalism.- Part III: Socialism(s): Still the Proper Response.- Chapter 13: Peter-Erwin Jansen, Human Rights: A Concrete Utopian Concept.- Chapter 14: Charles Reitz, Revolutionary Ecological Liberation: EarthCommonWealth.- Chapter 15: Imaculada Kangussu, 2020: Nature Said, "Stop".- Chapter 16: Casey Robertson, Marcusean Pathways for Queer Agency through Sonic Conceptions of Noise in the Twenty-First Century.- Chapter 17: James William Lincoln, The Unfreedom of Moral Perception during Occurrent Experience.- Chapter 18: Peter Marcuse, From Reform Politics towards Liberation during the Suicide of Capitalism: Examples from Housing Policy.- Afterword, Douglas Kellner.
About the author
Taylor Hines is Assistant Teaching Professor at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University, USA.
Peter-Erwin Jansen is a Philosopher and Sociologist who studied with Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth at Goethe Universität, Germany, teaches at the University of Applied Sciences in Koblenz, Germany, and studies Holocaust Communication and Tolerance at Touro University in Berlin.
Robert E. Kirsch is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Leadership and Integrative Studies at Arizona State University, USA.
Terry Maley teaches in the Politics Department and the Social and Political Thought graduate program at York University in Toronto, Canada.
