Creolizing Marcuse
Published on 5. February 2025
Book
Hardback
276 pages
978-1-5381-9814-8 (ISBN)
Description
Creolizing Marcuse bridges the gap between traditional interpretations of Herbert Marcuse and Caribbean/Africana theory. It challenges the rigid boundaries often found in Marcusean scholarship, especially those shaped by ideas of purity and scarcity, both historically and in current debates. Rather than simplifying Marcuse's theory, this book embraces its complexity to offer new insights into contemporary discussions on freedom, reciprocity, liberation, oppression, repression, and object relations theory. Creolizing Marcuse moves beyond producing static theoretical frameworks, instead urging decolonial, anti-racist, feminist, and queer scholars to actively incorporate Marcuse's ideas into evolving, practical approaches to difference and social justice. The book calls for theorists, activists, and scholar-activists alike to engage in ongoing, dynamic practices that resist standing still.
Contributors: Jake Bartholomew, Jina Fast, Stefan Gandler, Craig Leonard, Nicole K. Mayberry, Ricardo J. Millhouse, Yiamar Rivera-Matos, Sid Simpson, Dave Suell, Margath Walker, and Stacey-Ann Wilson.
Contributors: Jake Bartholomew, Jina Fast, Stefan Gandler, Craig Leonard, Nicole K. Mayberry, Ricardo J. Millhouse, Yiamar Rivera-Matos, Sid Simpson, Dave Suell, Margath Walker, and Stacey-Ann Wilson.
Reviews / Votes
This book is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the role that critical theory should play in today's world. With a focus on Marcuse, the essays collected here engage the with Global South to radically refigure European critical theory. Creolization, taken as a deliberate and strategic blending of differing systems of thought and practice, is deployed to interrogate the vestiges of racism and coloniality in European critical theory. With incisive analyses offered from Black, feminist, and queer critical theorists and theories, and rooted in the Global South, these essays offer perspectives that put philosophy into concrete, political, public, and lived practices. -- Jacqueline M. Martinez, professor of communication, Arizona State University and president, Caribbean Philosophical Association Creolizing Marcuse addresses the pressing need for a liberatory critical theory that is responsive to contemporary challenges. The book challenges the academic domestication of critical theory and revitalizes Marcuse, employing creolization as a method to disrupt and reconfigure the Western canon-a must-read for our times. -- Massimiliano Tomba, professor of the history of consciousness department, University of California, Santa CruzMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
606 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-9814-8 (9781538198148)
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Additional editions
Jina Fast | Nicole K. Mayberry | Sid Simpson
Creolizing Marcuse
E-Book
11/2024
1st Edition
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€98.99
Available for download
Jina Fast | Nicole K. Mayberry | Sid Simpson
Creolizing Marcuse
E-Book
11/2024
1st Edition
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€98.99
Available for download
Persons
Jina Fast is the SHIFT professor of applied ethics and the common good at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.
Nicole K. Mayberry is an assistant research professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University.
Sid Simpson is assistant professor of politics at Sewanee, the University of the South, where he is also affiliated with Sewanee's Integrated Program in the Environment and African and African American Studies Department.
Nicole K. Mayberry is an assistant research professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University.
Sid Simpson is assistant professor of politics at Sewanee, the University of the South, where he is also affiliated with Sewanee's Integrated Program in the Environment and African and African American Studies Department.
Content
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Jane Anna Gordon
Introduction: A Brief Introduction to Herbert Marcuse
Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry, and Sid Simpson
Chapter 1. Ghost Lines and Liberation: Haiti, Marcuse, and the Architecture of Freedom
Nicole K. Mayberry
Chapter 2. Situating Marcuse for Other Worlds: Why (Dis)placing Marcuse Matters
Margath Walker
Chapter 3. Rastafari Aesthetics and the Quest for Black Liberation
Stacey-Ann Wilson
Chapter 4. Beyond the Frankfurt School's Colonial Unconscious: Marcuse, Western Reason, and Epistemic Disobedience
Sid Simpson
Chapter 5. Exploring Energy Democracy from the Bottom Up: Knitting Subaltern Energy Futures
Yiamar Rivera-Matos
Chapter 6. Marcusean Philosophy and Black Queer Public Life
Ricardo J. Millhouse
Chapter 7. Radical Sense and Sensibility: On Creolization and Marcuse's Aesthetics
Craig Leonard
Chapter 8. Zea, Marcuse, and Fanon on the New Man: Situating Marcuse's Thought in the Global South of the 1960s
Jake Bartholomew
Chapter 9. The Obsolescence of African Socialism: Nyerere, Kaunda, and rethinking 'Marcusean' Utopia from the Third World
David Suell
Chapter 10. Reflections from the Americas on Marcuse's State Philosophy
Stefan Gandler
Chapter 11. Aesthetics and the Ordinary Notes of Being in Marcuse, Wynter, and Sharpe
Jina Fast
Index
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Jane Anna Gordon
Introduction: A Brief Introduction to Herbert Marcuse
Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry, and Sid Simpson
Chapter 1. Ghost Lines and Liberation: Haiti, Marcuse, and the Architecture of Freedom
Nicole K. Mayberry
Chapter 2. Situating Marcuse for Other Worlds: Why (Dis)placing Marcuse Matters
Margath Walker
Chapter 3. Rastafari Aesthetics and the Quest for Black Liberation
Stacey-Ann Wilson
Chapter 4. Beyond the Frankfurt School's Colonial Unconscious: Marcuse, Western Reason, and Epistemic Disobedience
Sid Simpson
Chapter 5. Exploring Energy Democracy from the Bottom Up: Knitting Subaltern Energy Futures
Yiamar Rivera-Matos
Chapter 6. Marcusean Philosophy and Black Queer Public Life
Ricardo J. Millhouse
Chapter 7. Radical Sense and Sensibility: On Creolization and Marcuse's Aesthetics
Craig Leonard
Chapter 8. Zea, Marcuse, and Fanon on the New Man: Situating Marcuse's Thought in the Global South of the 1960s
Jake Bartholomew
Chapter 9. The Obsolescence of African Socialism: Nyerere, Kaunda, and rethinking 'Marcusean' Utopia from the Third World
David Suell
Chapter 10. Reflections from the Americas on Marcuse's State Philosophy
Stefan Gandler
Chapter 11. Aesthetics and the Ordinary Notes of Being in Marcuse, Wynter, and Sharpe
Jina Fast
Index
Notes on Contributors