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

Acknowledgments

Author's Note

1. Recalling Marcuse: Art, Alienation, and the Humanities

2. Literary Art and Bildung: Marcuse's Early Works

Der deutsche Kunstlerroman: The German Artist Novel
The Artist's Education from Alienation to Maturity
Marcuse and Dilthey

3. The Emergent Critical Theory of Alienation: The Laws of Beauty versus the Law of the Thing

Alienation as Verdinglichung: Cornerstone of Critical Theory

4. The Emergent Critical Theory of Art: Marcuse's Middle Period

Art and The Actualization of Utopia

5. Marcuse's Aesthetic Ontology

The "Aesthetic Dimension" in Eros and Civilization
The Rationality of Art and the Denial of Things

6. Imagination, Death, and Educational Reminiscence

7. Alienation and Art in the One-Dimensional Society

Art and the Potential for Protest

8. Art Against Alienation: Aesthetic Education and Political Praxis

The Great Refusal and Lebensphilosophie
Education and Social Change

9. Art as Alienation: Marcuse's "Turn" and Return

10. The Future--Liberating the Critical in Critical Theory

The Irony of the Beautiful Soul of Herbert Marcuse
The Dialectics of Liberation and Learning
A Concluding Backward Glance

Appendix: Charter 2000: A Comprehensive Political Platform

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index