Lewis, T: Marcuse’s Challenge to Education

Edited by Douglas Kellner - By Tyson Lewis; Clayton Pierce and Daniel K. Cho

Marcuse's Challenge to Education, a collection of essays by scholars who have explicated his theories accompanied by unpublished lecture notes by Marcuse himself, examines his ground-breaking critique of education as well as his own pedagogical alternatives.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.

1 1. Introduction 2 2. Brooklyn College 1968 Lecture on education 3 3. 1975 Lecture Berkeley Lecture on Higher Education and politics 4 4. Biopower and Play: Contemporary Reflections on Herbert Marcuse and Education 5 5.Thanatos and Civilization: Lecan, Marcuse, and the death drive 6 6. For a Marcusian Ecopedagogy 7 7. Marcuse, Bloch, and Freire: reinvigorating a pedagogy of hope 8 8. The Dialectic of Tolerance and Intolerance in the Ethics of Caring 9 9. Democratic Science and Technology with Marcuse and Latour 10 10. Herbert Marcuse, Critical Race Theory & Multicultural Education: Transformative Educational Practices 11 11. Critical Theory and Information Studies: A Marcusean Infusion 12 12. Toward a Critical Legal Pedagogy: Using Herbert Marcuse to Examine and Reform Legal Education 13 13. Marcuse and the New Culture Wars: Campus Codes, Hate Speech, and the Critique of Pure Tolerance 14 14. Herbert Marcuse and the Humanities: Emancipatory Education vs. Predatory Capitalism