The Great Refusal
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The Great Refusal

Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements

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The Great Refusal

Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements

About this book

Herbert Marcuse examined the subjective and material conditions of radical social change and developed the "Great Refusal," a radical concept of "the protest against that which is." The editors and contributors to the exciting new volume The Great Refusal provide an analysis of contemporary social movements around the world with particular reference to Marcuse's revolutionary concept. The book also engages-and puts Marcuse in critical dialogue with-major theorists including Slavoj Žižek and Michel Foucault, among others.

The chapters in this book analyze different elements and locations of the contemporary wave of struggle, drawing on the work and vision of Marcuse in order to reveal, with a historical perspective, the present moment of resistance. Essays seek to understand recent uprisings-such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy movement-in the context of Marcuse's powerful conceptual apparatus.

The Great Refusal also charts contemporary social movements against global warming, mass incarceration, police brutality, white supremacy, militarization, technological development, and more, to provide insights that advance our understanding of resistance today.

Contributors include: Kevin B. Anderson, Stanley Aronowitz, Joan Braune, Jenny Chan, Angela Y. Davis, Arnold L. Farr, Andrew Feenberg, Michael Forman, Christian Fuchs, Stefan Gandler, Christian Garland, Toorjo Ghose, Imaculada Kangussu, George Katsiaficas, Douglas Kellner, Sarah Lynn Kleeb, Filip Kovacevic, Lauren Langman, Heather Love, Peter Marcuse, Martin J. Beck Matuštík, Russell Rockwell, AK Thompson, Marcelo Vieta, and the editors.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword: Abolition and Refusal | Angela Y. Davis
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1. Bouazizi’s Refusal and Ours: Critical Reflections on the Great Refusal and Contemporary Social Movements | Peter N. Funke, Andrew T. Lamas, and Todd Wolfson
  5. Part I. Mapping Coordinates
  6. Part II. Liberating Resistance
  7. Part III. Protesting Violence
  8. Part IV. Communicating Resistance
  9. Part V. Contesting Theories
  10. Afterword: The Great Refusal in a One-Dimensional Society | Arnold L. Farr and Andrew T. Lamas
  11. Contributors
  12. Index