Ecology and revolution : Herbert Marcuse and the challenge of a new world system today

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    • Reitz, Charles
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Ecology and revolution : Herbert Marcuse and the challenge of a new world system today

Charles Reitz

(Critical interventions : politics, culture, and the promise of democracy / edited by Henry A. Giroux, Susan Searls Giroux, and Kenneth J. Saltman)

Routledge, 2019

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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A timely addition to Henry Giroux's Critical Interventions series, Ecology and Revolution is grounded in the Frankfurt School critical theory of Herbert Marcuse. Its task is to understand the economic architecture of wealth extraction that undergirds today's intensifying inequalities of class, race, and gender, within a revolutionary ecological frame. Relying on newly discovered texts from the Frankfurt Marcuse Archive, this book builds theory and practice for an alternate world system. Ecology and radical political economy, as critical forms of systems analysis, show that an alternative world system is essential - both possible and feasible - despite political forces against it. Our rights to a commonwealth economy, politics, and culture reside in our commonworks as we express ourselves as artisans of the common good. It is in this context, that Charles Reitz develops a GreenCommonWealth Counter-Offensive, a strategy for revolutionary ecological liberation with core features of racial equality, women's equality, liberation of labor, restoration of nature, leisure, abundance, and peace.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. Introduction: Working with a "New" Marcuse. Ch. 1 The Necessity of a New World System Today: Racial Equality, Women's Equality, Liberation of Labor, Restoration of Nature, Leisure, Abundance, and Peace. Ch. 2 The Trajectory of Marcuse's Philosophy. Ch. 3 The Activist Political Legacy of One-Dimensional Man. Ch. 4 A Foundation for Ethics in Commonwealth Labor. Ch. 5 Dialectics Rising: Science, Philosophy, Marxism, Marcuse. Ch. 6 What Makes Critical Theory Critical? Reclaiming the Critique of Commodity Fetishism. Chapter 7. Ecology and Revolution. Index.

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