New Critical Theory Essays on Liberation

by Wilkerson, William S.; Paris, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780742512771
• ISBN10: 0742512770
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-27
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

An edited collection of all new work in the area of new critical theory, intended to serve as a signature volume for the New Critical Theory Series. The volume, like the series as a whole, is designed to capture the present moment in postdisciplinary theory, as the older tradition of critical theory in the Frankfurt School sense comes together with postmodernism and the new critical theory. It represents the dialogue that is taking place among the various strands of theory and can serve as a survey of contemporary leftist philosophy.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Back to the Future: Marcuse and New Critical Theory	vii
Martin Beck Matustik
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction: Why a New Critical Theory?	1	(14)
William S. Wilkerson
Jeffrey Paris
Part I: Visions and Methods
Obstinate Critique and the Possibility of the Future	15	(22)
Jeffrey Paris
Redemption in the Impasse: An Other Communism	37	(12)
Bill Martin
Toward a New Critical Theory	49	(16)
James L. Marsh
Inhabiting Hope: Contributions to a New Materialist Phenomenology	65	(20)
William S. Wilkerson
Part II: Intersections beyond Postmodernism
Marcuse and the Quest for Radical Subjectivity	85	(20)
Douglas Kellner
Challenging the Colonial Contract: The Zapatistas' Insurgent Imagination	105	(30)
Patricia Huntington
Part III: Critique of Technology
Marcuse and the Aestheticization of Technology	135	(20)
Andrew Feenberg
Women Carrying Water: At the Crossroads of Technology and Critical Theory	155	(20)
Yoko Arisaka
Chronotopology: Critique of Spatiotemporal Regimes	175	(26)
Eduardo Mendieta
Part IV: Race, Sexuality, and the Normative Foundations of Criticism
Can Queer Theory Be Critical Theory?	201	(22)
Michael Hames-Garcia
The Mother Wit of Justice: Eros and Hubris in the African American Context	223	(26)
Cynthia Willett
Imaging the Horizon	249	(14)
Gail Weiss
Index	263	(8)
About the Contributors	271