Philosophy of Praxis

Andrew Feenberg is the author of Lukács, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory (1986), Critical Theory of Technology (1991), Alternative Modernity (1995), Questioning Technology (1999), Transforming Technology (2002), Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History (2005), and Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity (2010). He is also co-editor of Marcuse: Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia (1987), Technology and the Politics of Knowledge (1995), Modernity and Technology (2003), Community in the Digital Age (2004), and (Re)inventing the Internet (2012). With William Leiss, Feenberg has edited a collection entitled The Essential Marcuse published in 2007. His co-authored book on the French May Events of 1968 appeared in 2001 under the title When Poetry Ruled the Streets.

"Feenberg's subtle and wide-ranging study of Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness reaches forward to Marcuse and the Frankfurt School and backwards into Marx's 1844 manuscripts. The book offers a whole new framework in which to grasp the history of Marxist theory, at the same time restoring Marcuse's centrality in it." - Fredric Jameson "A model of lucid and sophisticated intellectual history." - Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley "A most fascinating and significant book." - Theory and Society "A vigorous and thoughtful reassessment of both Lukacs and the Western Marxist tradition - of great interest to anyone interested in critical theory or continental philosophy." - Robert Pippin, University of Chicago "Feenberg achieves his goal of demonstrating the relevance of seemingly dusty and abstract philosophical conundrums not only to contemporary social theory but to politics as well." - The American Political Science Review "[Feenberg's] sensitive and intelligent treatment of a complex constellation of interrelated problems in Marxist studies should commend his book to a wide audience of interested scholars." - Man and World "Poses the central problem of history in such a way that every reader can identify its elements - The author knows the subject thoroughly, and illuminates many points in the texts of his main authors, as well as in those of such subsidiary figures as Marcuse and Habermas." - The Review of Metaphysics