Marcuse's Challenge to Education

by Kellner, Douglas; Lewis, Tyson; Pierce, Clayton; Cho, Daniel K.

• ISBN13: 9780742561892
• ISBN10: 0742561895
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Marcuse's Challenge to Education, a collection of essays by scholars who have explicated his theories accompanied by unpublished lecture notes by Marcuse himself, examines his ground-breaking critique of education as well as his own pedagogical alternatives. This compilation provides an overview of the various themes of Marcuse's challenges to traditional education and connections with ideas of other radical thinkers ranging from Bloch and Freire to Freud and Lacan. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. Tyson Lewis is assistant professor of educational philosophy at Montclair State University. Clayton Pierce is a postdoctoral research associate in the department of education, culture, and society at the University of Utah. K. Daniel Cho is assistant professor of education and director of the program in critical theory at Otterbein College.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Lecture on Education, Brooklyn College, 1968	p. 33
Lecture on Higher Education and Politics, Berkeley, 1975	p. 39
Biopower, Play, and Experience in Education	p. 45
Thanatos and Civilization: Lacan, Marcuse, and the Death Drive	p. 59
For a Marcusian Ecopedagogy	p. 79
Moving from Critique to Hope: Critical Interventions from Marcuse to Freire	p. 103
The Dialectic of Tolerance and Intolerance in the Ethics of Caring	p. 117
Democratizing Science and Technology with Marcuse and Latour	p. 131
Herbert Marcuse, Critical Race Theory, and Multicultural Education: Transformative Educational Practices	p. 159
Critical Theory and Information Studies: A Marcusian Infusion	p. 181
Toward a Critical Legal Pedagogy: Using Herbert Marcuse to Examine and Reform Legal Education	p. 193
Herbert Marcuse and the New Culture Wars: Campus Codes, Hate Speech, and the Critique of Pure Tolerance	p. 213
Herbert Marcuse and the Humanities: Emancipatory Education vs. Predatory Capitalism	p. 229
Index	p. 251
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 255
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