The Dialectics of Liberation in Dark Times: Marcuse's Thought in the Neoliberal Era

ISBN-13: 9783031224874 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Taylor Hines; Peter-Erwin Jansen; Robert E. Kirsch

Opis

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 the development of Marcuse scholarship.

Spis treści

Introduction, Taylor Hines, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Robert E. Kirsch, Terry Maley

 

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 Comparative Approach to Telos and Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer

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

O autorze

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.

Blurb

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 the development of Marcuse scholarship.

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.