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Upcoming Conference: Sixth Biennial Conference of the Marcuse Society: 12-15 November 2015, SALISBURY UNIVERSITY, Salisbury, Maryland, USA
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RADICAL PHILOSOPHY REVIEW

50th Anniversary



New, Extended Deadline:
February 10, 2015
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Critical Highlights  No. 10     November 2014                                 

2014 Conference in Brazil
on One-Dimensional Man
UFABC in São Bernardo do Campo

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Forthcoming Publication

Radical Philosophy Review

 

This year—2014—is the fiftieth anniversary
of one of the twentieth century's most
provocative, subversive, and widely read works of radical theory:

 
Herbert Marcuse's 
One-Dimensional Man
 
To mark the occasion,
a special issue of the Radical Philosophy Review will be published.  

You are invited to contribute to the project of developing critical theory for our time by joining us in exploring, critiquing, assessing, and extending the critical legacy of this important book.
 


 
CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline: February 10, 2015
 
Praxis and Critique:

Liberation, Pedagogy,
and the University

 
International Herbert Marcuse Society
Sixth Biennial Conference

12-15 November 2015

Salisbury University
Salisbury, Maryland, USA




CALL FOR PAPERS

          In recent years, the problems and contradictions intrinsic to capitalist society have resulted in a number of manifest, seemingly permanent, crises. Many researchers, academics, and activists have seized on the urgency of recent coalescing crises—from environmental degradation to economic inequality, political instability to social unraveling, and beyond—in an attempt to ameliorate and analyze the consequences of these dilapidated social relations. The work of Herbert Marcuse aims to radically re-envision social relations via critical theory as a way to formulate a praxis of liberation. However, if we live in a society, as Marcuse puts it, “without negation,” how shall this critical rationality be cultivated?

 

          The International Herbert Marcuse Society seeks papers for the 2015 biennial conference, “Praxis and Critique: Liberation, Pedagogy, and the University,” that address the broad pedagogical concerns of cultivating emancipatory rationality. Faculty, independent scholars, activists, artists, and others are invited to submit papers. Papers may want to address, but are certainly not limited to, the following problematics:

 

     What role can and should critical pedagogy play in today’s institutions of higher education? Given Marcuse’s emphasis on praxis, critical pedagogy cannot be limited to classroom space in universities - how can a critical rationality translate into programs of activism, agitation, and organization?

     How is the work of Marcuse, the Frankfurt School, and/or critical theory generally relevant to the current context of political, social, economic, and cultural struggles?

     What is the meaning of praxis and critique today? Do Marcuse’s contemporary interlocutors help us refine, understand, recast, or critique visions of a critical rationality?

     What can we learn from activists and scholars from a wide range of critical theories, dealing with liberation in areas such as critical race theory, intersectionality, LGBTQIA studies, disability studies, and postcolonial theory?

     How does Marcuse’s critical theory provide a lens through which to assess the current condition of advanced industrial society?

 

          Student participation is also encouraged. The conference organizers are particularly interested in encouraging undergraduate and graduate student participation. To this end, we encourage faculty to teach related or special topics classes in fall 2015 and to bring students of all levels to the conference. Undergraduate students are invited to present papers in special concurrent sessions. Undergraduate and graduate students will also have the opportunity to submit conference papers for publication to special conference editions.

 

Abstracts due: May 20, 2015

 

          This conference is an interdisciplinary, multimedia engagement with the many dimensions of Herbert Marcuse’s work. So, in addition to the presentation of papers, the conference will also present artistic work.

Artistic Presentations:

The Salisbury University Gallery will present two related exhibitions. 

  • The first is “Versprechen, dass es anders sein kann” (Promises that it can be different) by painter Antje Wichtrey.                                 
  • Salisbury University Gallery Director, Elizabeth Kauffman, will curate the second exhibition.                          

 

For more information, contact the conference organizers:
 

Dr. Sarah Surak:  smsurak@salisbury.edu

and

Dr. Robert Kirsch:  rekirsch@salisbury.edu

Marxism, Revolution and Utopia:
Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse


Volume Six (Herbert Marcuse: Collected Papers) Routledge, 2014
by Herbert Marcuse


Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce, editors


          This collection assembles some of Herbert Marcuse’s most important work and presents for the first time his responses to and development of classic Marxist approaches to revolution and utopia, as well as his own theoretical and political perspectives.

          This sixth and final volume of Marcuse's collected papers shows Marcuse’s rejection of the prevailing twentieth-century Marxist theory and socialist practice - which he saw as inadequate for a thorough critique of Western and Soviet bureaucracy - and the development of his revolutionary thought towards a critique of the consumer society. Marcuse's later philosophical perspectives on technology, ecology, and human emancipation sat at odds with many of the classic tenets of Marx’s materialist dialectic which placed the working class as the central agent of change in capitalist societies. As the material from this volume shows, Marcuse was not only a theorist of Marxist thought and practice in the twentieth century, but also proves to be an essential thinker for understanding the neoliberal phase of capitalism and resistance in the twenty-first century.

          A comprehensive introduction by Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce places Marcuse’s philosophy in the context of his engagement with the main currents of twentieth century philosophy while also providing important analyses of his anticipatory theorization of capitalist development through a neoliberal restructuring of society. The volume concludes with an afterword by Peter Marcuse.


Teaching Critical Refusals 2015

   
   The Social Justice Research Academy will convene -- for its fourth annual program -- at the University of Pennsylvania in July 2015. Faculty affiliated with the International Herbert Marcuse Society will teach high school students about Hegel, Marx, Du Bois, Marcuse, Angela Davis, critical theories, and global social movements in a three-week, intensive program of critical pedagogy. Students from the following countries have attended: China, USA, Russia, Ukraine, South Korea, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Ireland, UK, Palestine, Spain, Canada, Singapore, El Salvador, and more. 
       
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Many Conferences Around the World in 2014 
on One-Dimensional Man's 50th Anniversary


            In order to acknowledge, critically assess, and push forward from Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, several conferences and numerous panels have been held during 2014 in universities and other institutions around the world (e.g., Columbia University; Brandeis University; Left Forum; Historical Materialism; Instituto de Filosofia, Artes e Cultura, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo; UEM: State University of Maringa; PUC: Pontificate Catholic University; UFABC: Federal University of Santo Andre, Sao Bernardo e Sao Caetano; Frankfurter Institut für Sozialforschung; University of Heidelberg; Artes Liberarales Buchhandlung; Karl Marx Buchhandlung in Frankfurt; Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin). Authors who presented papers at these and other events are warmly invited to prepare and submit their papers in response to this newsletter's two Calls for Papers -- one for the upcoming special issue of the Radical Philosophy Review and the other for the 2015 Marcuse Society conference at Salisbury University.  Of course, all authors (faculty, independent scholars, activists, artists, students, others)—regardless of whether or not they presented papers at any of the above conferences—are enthusiastically invited to submit papers in response to both of these Calls for Papers.
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