Herbert Marcuse and Environmentalism

Book Review| March 01 2020 Herbert Marcuse and Environmentalism Ecology and Revolution: Herbert Marcuse and the Challenge of a New World Order, by Reitz, Charles, New York: Routledge, 2019, 194 pages, $31.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-138-34187-6 Malcolm Miles Malcolm Miles Malcolm Miles is a writer on critical theory and modern culture; his most recent book is Cities and Literature (2019), and his next will be Paradoxical Urbanism (2020). He was professor of cultural theory in the Architecture School, Plymouth University, until 2016. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 135–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8017359 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Malcolm Miles; Herbert Marcuse and Environmentalism. Cultural Politics 1 March 2020; 16 (1): 135–137. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8017359 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsCultural Politics Search Advanced Search Charles Reitz has written two previous books on Herbert Marcuse, Philosophy and Critical Pedagogy (2016) and Art, Alienation, and the Humanities (2000). In this volume he turns to Marcuse’s writing on ecology, noting that Marcuse stood out among the New Left of the 1970s in recognizing environmental campaigning as an element within a wider movement for radical social change. Marcuse wrote two papers on ecology: “Ecology and Revolution,” from a conference paper given in France in 1972; and “Ecology and the Critique of Modern Society,” from a lecture to a wilderness group in California in1979. Both align environmental destruction with consumer capitalism and what Marcuse called the warfare state. Both papers are included in Marcuse’s Collected Papers (vols. 3 and 5, respectively), but Reitz adds his own reading of five papers from the Marcuse archive at Frankfurt University, all unpublished until 2017, to contextualize... © 2020 Duke University Press2020 Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content

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