Herbert Marcuse As Social Justice Educator - A Critical Introduction

Demonstrating the continued relevance of Marcuse's work, Herbert Marcuse as Social Justice Educator details how his work remains a countervailing force to the conventional wisdom in intellectual and political matters today.

List of contents

1. Campus Opposition to Genocide and Ecocide in Gaza Today: Marcuse on Israel's Historical Injustice in Palestine
2. Herbert Marcuse as Social Justice Educator: The Liberal Arts and Sciences, Critical Political Economy, Ecopedagogy
3. Marcuse as Antifascist Social Critic
4. The Activist Legacy of One-Dimensional Man
5. What Makes Higher Education Higher?-The Philosophical Foundations for Critical Social Research
6. Critical Teaching and Learning: On the Origins of Social Inequality
7. Ecosocialism and the Revolutionary Goals of Reason
8. Educating the Educator
9. Marcuse's Critical Pedagogy as Social Justice Education

About the author

Charles Reitz is the author of The Revolutionary Ecological Legacy of Herbert Marcuse (2023), Ecology and Revolution: Herbert Marcuse and the Challenge of a New World System Today (2019) and Philosophy & Critical Pedagogy: Insurrection & Commonwealth (2016); editor of Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren (2015); and author of Art, Alienation and the Humanities: A Critical Engagement with Herbert Marcuse (2000). He served for several years on the Board of Directors of the International Herbert Marcuse Society.

Summary

Demonstrating the continued relevance of Marcuse’s work, Herbert Marcuse as Social Justice Educator details how his work remains a countervailing force to the conventional wisdom in intellectual and political matters today.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Reitz, Reitz Charles
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032945941
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3294594-1
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Critical Interventions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Political science & theory, Political science and theory