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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Malcolm MilesPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.271kg ISBN: 9780745330389ISBN 10: 074533038 Pages: 204 Publication Date: 05 December 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is a book that engages perhaps the most important social issue of our times: how has the technologically advanced and affluent society in which most readers of these words live shaped us into beings who tolerate injustice, physical poverty and mental impoverishment, destruction of our environment, murderous warfare, and left us unhappily helpless to see even the possibility of any radical change? Miles goes back to Marcuse's work on aesthetics to link philosophy, art, history, political analysis, and sociological insights in a deeply humane search for the way to a better world. It deserves a very wide readership indeed. -- Peter Marcuse (with obvious bias). Herbert Marcuse: An Aesthetics of Liberation presents a comprehensive critical overview and a comprehensive interrogation of Marcuse's writings on art and aesthetics. Miles reads Marcuse as envisaging art as a way in which societies re-imagine themselves and project visions of a freer, happier, and better way of life. In these troubled times, it is refreshing to re-engage with Marcuse's utopian visions of art and society and Miles proves a highly capable guide to this adventure. -- Douglas Kellner, UCLA, author of Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy Introducing the aesthetic writings of radical philosopher Herbert Marcuse, cultural theorist Malcolm Miles explores the role the imagination plays for Marcuse in political transformation, offering us the hope of a horizon to neo-liberal capitalism's treachery. How we need this book today: intelligently argued -- clever, funny, sometimes wistful -- it is a call to arms (to art), beautifully written from the heart. -- Jane Rendell, Professor and Vice Dean of Research, The Bartlett, UCL, and author of Site-Writing (2010), Art and Architecture (2006) and The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002). Miles goes back to Marcuse,s work on aesthetics to link philosophy, art, history, political analysis, and sociological insights in a deeply humane search for the way to a better world. It deserves a very wide readership. -- Peter Marcuse (with obvious bias). This book presents a comprehensive critical overview and a comprehensive interrogation of Marcuse's writings on art and aesthetics. Miles reads Marcuse as envisaging art as a way in which societies re-imagine themselves and project visions of a freer, happier, and better way of life. In these troubled times, it is refreshing to re-engage with Marcuse's utopian visions of art and society and Miles proves a highly capable guide to this adventure. -- Douglas Kellner, UCLA, author of Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy Introducing the aesthetic writings of radical philosopher Herbert Marcuse, cultural theorist Malcolm Miles explores the role the imagination plays for Marcuse in political transformation, offering us the hope of a horizon to neo-liberal capitalism,s treachery. How we need this book today: intelligently argued - clever, funny, sometimes wistful - it is a call to arms (to art), beautifully written from the heart. -- Jane Rendell, Professor and Vice Dean of Research, The Bartlett, UCL, and author of Site-Writing (2010), Art and Architecture (2006) and The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002). Introducing the aesthetic writings of radical philosopher Herbert Marcuse, cultural theorist Malcolm Miles explores the role the imagination plays for Marcuse in political transformation, offering us the hope of a horizon to neo-liberal capitalism's treachery. How we need this book today: intelligently argued - clever, funny, sometimes wistful - it is a call to arms (to art), beautifully written from the heart. -- Jane Rendell, Professor and Vice Dean of Research, The Bartlett, UCL, and author of Site-Writing (2010), Art and Architecture (2006) and The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002). This book presents a comprehensive critical overview and a comprehensive interrogation of Marcuse's writings on art and aesthetics. Miles reads Marcuse as envisaging art as a way in which societies re-imagine themselves and project visions of a freer, happier, and better way of life. In these troubled times, it is refreshing to re-engage with Marcuse's utopian visions of art and society and Miles proves a highly capable guide to this adventure. -- Douglas Kellner, UCLA, author of Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy Miles goes back to Marcuse's work on aesthetics to link philosophy, art, history, political analysis, and sociological insights in a deeply humane search for the way to a better world. It deserves a very wide readership. -- Peter Marcuse (with obvious bias). Author InformationMalcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth. He is the author of Herbert Marcuse: an Aesthetics of Liberation (Pluto, 2011) and Limits to Culture (Pluto, 2015). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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