Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter iii
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Author’s Note xiii
5. Recalling Marcuse: Art, Alienation, and the Humanities 1
6. Literary Art and Bildung: Marcuse’s Early Works 27
7. The Emergent Critical Theory of Alienation: The Laws of Beauty versus the Law of the Thing 51
8. The Emergent Critical Theory of Art: Marcuse’s Middle Period 79
9. Marcuse’s Aesthetic Ontology 99
10. Imagination, Death, and Educational Reminiscence 117
11. Alienation and Art in the One-Dimensional Society 143
12. Art Against Alienation: Aesthetic Education as Political Praxis 175
13. Art as Alienation: Marcuse’s “Turn” and Return 195
14. The Future—Liberating the Critical in Critical Theory 242
15. Appendix Charter 2000: A Comprehensive Political Platform 267
16. Notes 285
17. Glossary of Selected Foreign Terms and Phrases 305
18. Bibliography 311
19. Name Index 325
20. Subject Index 329