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Critical Theory and Democratic Vision - Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies (Hardcover, New)
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Critical Theory and Democratic Vision - Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies (Hardcover, New)
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The most broad and general description of critical theory (one of
the most important movements in social and political philosophy in
the twentieth and now twenty-first century) is that it is a
synthesis of Marxist social critique and Freudian psychoanalysis
with traces of German idealism. Farr argues that the goal demand
for social change by critical theorists is rooted in a desire for
the completion of the U.S. democratic experiment. There is too much
exploitation, surplus repression, alienation, dehumanization,
oppression, and gross economic inequality in the U.S. for us to
believe that we have achieved a complete or finished democracy.
Herbert Marcuse's form of critical theory provides us with
important theoretical tools for addressing the ways in which our
attempt to create a democratic society based on fairness, justice,
and equality has been de-railed. While Marcuse experienced
tremendous popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, his popularity has
since waned in academic circles as well as in public political
discourse. This book is an attempt to rescue from obscurity some of
Marcuse's most helpful insights with respect to progressive,
democratic social change. Its unique feature is an attempt to put
Marcuse in dialogue with what Farr calls recent liberation
philosophies such as feminism and African American philosophy. He
takes all of these forms of philosophy to be driven by a democratic
impulse whereby we are made to realize that there are many social
groups that have been excluded from democratic decision-making
processes.
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