Creolizing Marcuse

Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry, Sid Simpson

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9798881862398
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Aesthetics in Philosophy

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• A Brief Introduction to Creolizing Marcuse
• Chapter 1: Ghost Lines and Liberation: Haiti, Marcuse, and the Architecture of Freedom
• Chapter 2: Situating Marcuse for Other Worlds: Why (Dis)Placing Marcuse Matters
• Chapter 3: Rastafari Aesthetics and the Quest for Black Liberation
• Chapter 4: Beyond the Frankfurt School’s Colonial Unconscious: Marcuse, Western Reason, and Epistemic Disobedience
• Chapter 5: Exploring Energy Democracy from the Bottom Up: Knitting Subaltern Energy Futures
• Chapter 6: Marcusean Philosophy and Urban Black Queer Public Life
• Chapter 7: Radical Sense and Sensibility: Reflections on Creolization and Aesthetic Experience
• Chapter 8: Zea, Marcuse, and Fanon on the New Man: Situating Marcuse’s Thought in the Global South of the 1960s
• Chapter 9: The Obsolescence of African Socialism: Nyerere, Kaunda, and Rethinking “Marcusean” Utopia from the Third World
• Chapter 10: Reflections from the Americas on Marcuse’s State Philosophy
• Chapter 11: Aesthetics and the Ordinary Notes of Being in Marcuse, Wynter, and Sharpe
• Index
• About the Contributors