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In this reassessment of Marcuse, the controversial New Left philosopher of the 1960s, 15 contributors consider his ideas in the radically different theoretical and political contexts of the 1990s.

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This collection of essays revives and rehabilitates one of the best-known left intellectuals of the 1960s. The contributors generally seek to apply the critical, self-consciously political spirit of Marcuse's Freudian-Heideggerian-Neomarxism in the context of post-Soviet, postmodern 1990s radical relativisms. Contributors were invited to write on topics of their choice, which the editors have divided, with inevitably mixed success, into five sections: on trends in radicalism, on psychoanalysis and feminism, on reconciling subjectivity and critical political theory, on technology's domination of nature and its relation to the domination of humans, and on the relevance of Marcuse to future radicalism. The 14 essays and useful introduction are notably free of the jargon that characterizes contemporary theorizing, but they also rely on the reader's prior familiarity with that theoretical literature. Moreover, this collection's unconcealed longing for intellectual and social revolution, as well as the often nostalgic view of '60s radicalism (which includes, interestingly, disdain for political correctness as antipolitical and frivolous), may restrict its appeal to readers already of renascent New Left inclinations. Graduate; faculty. B. Pencek; formerly, Northern Arizona University