A timely addition to Henry Giroux's Critical Interventions series, Ecology and Revolution is grounded in the Frankfurt School critical theory of Herbert Marcuse.
Charles Reitz is the author of Philosophy & Critical Pedagogy: Insurrection & Commonwealth (2016); editor of Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren (2015); and author of Art, Alienation and the Humanities: A Critical Engagement with Herbert Marcuse (2000). He served for several years on the Board of Directors of the International Herbert Marcuse Society.
Acknowledgements. Introduction: Working with a "New" Marcuse. Ch. 1 The Necessity of a New World System Today: Racial Equality, Women's Equality, Liberation of Labor, Restoration of Nature, Leisure, Abundance, and Peace. Ch. 2 The Trajectory of Marcuse's Philosophy. Ch. 3 The Activist Political Legacy of One-Dimensional Man. Ch. 4 A Foundation for Ethics in Commonwealth Labor. Ch. 5 Dialectics Rising: Science, Philosophy, Marxism, Marcuse. Ch. 6 What Makes Critical Theory Critical? Reclaiming the Critique of Commodity Fetishism. Chapter 7. Ecology and Revolution. Index.