Marcuse's Challenge to Education

Douglas Kellner is editor of the groundbreaking book Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism (Macmillan and University of California Press, 1984) and The Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse. Kellner is Philosophy of Education Chair of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at UCLA.Tyson Lewis is assistant professor of educational philosophy at Montclair State University. Clayton Pierce is a postdoctoral research associate in the department of education, culture, and society at the University of Utah. K. Daniel Cho is assistant professor of education and director of the program in critical theory at Otterbein College.

• 1 1. Introduction 2 2. Brooklyn College 1968 Lecture on education 3 3. 1975 Lecture Berkeley Lecture on Higher Education and politics 4 4. Biopower and Play: Contemporary Reflections on Herbert Marcuse and Education 5 5.Thanatos and Civilization: Lecan, Marcuse, and the death drive 6 6. For a Marcusian Ecopedagogy 7 7. Marcuse, Bloch, and Freire: reinvigorating a pedagogy of hope 8 8. The Dialectic of Tolerance and Intolerance in the Ethics of Caring 9 9. Democratic Science and Technology with Marcuse and Latour 10 10. Herbert Marcuse, Critical Race Theory & Multicultural Education: Transformative Educational Practices 11 11. Critical Theory and Information Studies: A Marcusean Infusion 12 12. Toward a Critical Legal Pedagogy: Using Herbert Marcuse to Examine and Reform Legal Education 13 13. Marcuse and the New Culture Wars: Campus Codes, Hate Speech, and the Critique of Pure Tolerance 14 14. Herbert Marcuse and the Humanities: Emancipatory Education vs. Predatory Capitalism