Ecology and Revolution: Herbert Marcuse and the Challenge of a New World System Today [Hardcover]

A timely addition to Henry Girouxs 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 todays 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, womens equality, liberation of labor, restoration of nature, leisure, abundance, and peace.

Acknowledgements. Introduction: Working with a New Marcuse. Ch. 1 The Necessity of a New World System Today: Racial Equality, Womens Equality, Liberation of Labor, Restoration of Nature, Leisure, Abundance, and Peace. Ch. 2 The Trajectory of Marcuses 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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