Marcuse - Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia

Distinguished scholars--Jurgen Habermas, Claus Offe, Douglas Kellner, and Martin Jay, among others--draw upon historical, theoretical, and biographical information to assess Marcuse's philosophy, from its grounding in classical German idealism, through the break with Heidegger, to his role in the American counterculture of the sixties and seventies. Indispensable for anyone interested in an in-depth understanding of one of the most burning issues of our time: the relation of critical theory to social action.

About the author

Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Applied Communication and Technology Lab. His many publications include Lukács,Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 1981; Oxford University Press, 1986), Critical Theory of Technology (Oxford University Press, 1991 and 2002), Alternative Modernity (University of California Press, 1995), Questioning Technology (Routledge, 1999), Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History (Routledge, 2005), Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity (MIT Press, 2010), The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukács and the Frankfurt School (Verso Press, 2014) and Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason (Harvard University Press, 2017).

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Feenberg, Feenberg Andrew, Robert Pippin, Pippin Robert, Charles Webel, Webel Charles P.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.1987
• EAN: 9780897891073
• ISBN: 978-0-89789-107-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 595 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Politics, Law, and Government