Creolizing Marcuse

Jina Fast is the SHIFT professor of applied ethics and the common good at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.Nicole K. Mayberry is an assistant research professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. Sid Simpson is assistant professor of politics at Sewanee, the University of the South, where he is also affiliated with Sewanee’s Integrated Program in the Environment and African and African American Studies Department.

This book is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the role that critical theory should play in today’s world. With a focus on Marcuse, the essays collected here engage the with Global South to radically refigure European critical theory. Creolization, taken as a deliberate and strategic blending of differing systems of thought and practice, is deployed to interrogate the vestiges of racism and coloniality in European critical theory. With incisive analyses offered from Black, feminist, and queer critical theorists and theories, and rooted in the Global South, these essays offer perspectives that put philosophy into concrete, political, public, and lived practices.

• Acknowledgments ForewordJane Anna GordonIntroduction: A Brief Introduction to Herbert Marcuse Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry, and Sid SimpsonChapter 1. Ghost Lines and Liberation: Haiti, Marcuse, and the Architecture of FreedomNicole K. MayberryChapter 2. Situating Marcuse for Other Worlds: Why (Dis)placing Marcuse MattersMargath WalkerChapter 3. Rastafari Aesthetics and the Quest for Black LiberationStacey-Ann WilsonChapter 4. Beyond the Frankfurt School’s Colonial Unconscious: Marcuse, Western Reason, and Epistemic DisobedienceSid SimpsonChapter 5. Exploring Energy Democracy from the Bottom Up: Knitting Subaltern Energy FuturesYiamar Rivera-MatosChapter 6. Marcusean Philosophy and Black Queer Public LifeRicardo J. MillhouseChapter 7. Radical Sense and Sensibility: On Creolization and Marcuse’s AestheticsCraig LeonardChapter 8. Zea, Marcuse, and Fanon on the New Man: Situating Marcuse's Thought in the Global South of the 1960sJake BartholomewChapter 9. The Obsolescence of African Socialism: Nyerere, Kaunda, and rethinking ‘Marcusean’ Utopia from the Third WorldDavid SuellChapter 10. Reflections from the Americas on Marcuse’s State PhilosophyStefan GandlerChapter 11. Aesthetics and the Ordinary Notes of Being in Marcuse, Wynter, and SharpeJina FastIndexNotes on Contributors