Art, Alienation, and the Humanities: A Critical Engagement With Herbert Marcuse

by Reitz, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780791444627
• ISBN10: 0791444627
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Charles Reitz is Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of Service Learning at Kansas City Kansas Community College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Author's Note	xiii
Recalling Marcuse: Art, Alienation, and the Humanities	1	(26)
Literary Art and Bildung: Marcuse's Early Works	27	(24)
Der deutsche Kunstlerroman: The German Artist Novel	28	(3)
The Artist's Education from Alienation to Maturity	31	(11)
Marcuse and Dilthey	42	(9)
The Emergent Critical Theory of Alienation: The Laws of Beauty versus the Law of the Thing	51	(28)
Alienation as Verdinglichung Cornerstone of Critical Theory	52	(27)
The Emergent Critical Theory of Art: Marcuse's Middle Period	79	(20)
Art and the Actualization of Utopia	84	(15)
Marcuse's Aesthetic Ontology	99	(18)
The ``Aesthetic Dimension'' in Eros and Civilization	101	(5)
The Rationality of Art and the Denial of Things	106	(11)
Imagination, Death, and Educational Reminiscence	117	(26)
Alienation and Art in the One-Dimensional Society	143	(32)
Art and the Potential for Protest	165	(10)
Art Against Alienation: Aesthetic Education and Political Praxis	175	(20)
The Great Refusal and Lebensphilosophie	183	(5)
Education and Social Change	188	(7)
Art as Alienation: Marcuse's ``Turn'' and Return	195	(28)
The Future-Liberating the Critical in Critical Theory	223	(44)
The Irony of the Beautiful Soul of Herbert Marcuse	228	(12)
The Dialectics of Liberation and Learning	240	(22)
A Concluding Backward Glance	262	(5)
Appendix: Charter 2000: A Comprehensive Political Platform	267	(18)
Notes	285	(20)
Glossary	305	(6)
Bibliography	311	(14)
Name Index	325	(4)
Subject Index	329