Creolizing Marcuse

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

Creolizing Marcuse explores the intersections between Herbert Marcuse's critical theory and Africana and Caribbean theory, revealing the potential for a dynamic interplay of ideas to understand and address contemporary social, political, and ecological challenges amid material, historical realities.

Contenu

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 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