Overview
- Explores how the critical theory of Marcuse can be a lens for analysing contemporary (i.e. climate and other) crises
- Provides an international perspective that shows the relevance of Marcuse’s critical theory to a global audience
- Uses Marcusean theory to analyse the resurgence of right-wing populism, authoritarianism and the far-right globally
Part of the book series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice (CPTRP)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Neoliberal Authoritarianism
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Neoliberalism and Technological Rationality
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Aspects of Liberation
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Dialectics of Liberation in Dark Times
Book Subtitle: Marcuse's Thought in the Neoliberal Era
Editors: Taylor Hines, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Robert E. Kirsch, Terry Maley
Series Title: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22488-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22487-4Published: 02 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22490-4Due: 31 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22488-1Published: 29 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-6580
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 419
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Critical Theory, Political Science, Political History