"This book 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"--
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.
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This book is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the role that critical theory should play in todays 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 canona must-read for our times. -- Massimiliano Tomba, professor of the history of consciousness department, University of California, Santa Cruz
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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.
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 Schools 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 Marcuses
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 Marcuses State Philosophy
Stefan Gandler
Chapter
11. Aesthetics and the Ordinary Notes of Being in Marcuse, Wynter,
and Sharpe
Jina Fast
Index
Notes on Contributors
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 Sewanees Integrated Program in the Environment and African and African American Studies Department.
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