HERBERT MARCUSE PHILOSOPHER OF UTOPIA: A Graphic Biography - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0872867854 ISBN 13: 9780872867857

Verlag: Consortium, 2000

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"Marcuse believed in a life of play and joy, and Thorkelson's somewhat cartoonish style befits this aspect despite the serious nature of the topic. Panels are rich in visual allusions, ranging from George Herriman's Krazy & Ignatz comics to Eugene Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People. Thorkelson further draws parallels with present-day left-wing concerns, enhancing the overall appeal for like-minded readers, assuming some familiarity with the personalities and philosophies of the intellectual left from the 1930s to the 1980s.For fans of graphic biographies, 20th-century philosophy, historical leftist ideology, and current radical political movements.-Library Journal "Thorkelson's thoroughly researched biography focuses on the ideas that made Marcuse a firebrand ... it concisely sums up the antiestablishment leftist's complex and evolving arguments on power, patriarchy, and human possibility ... Thorkelson's art, reminiscent of Larry Gopnick's Cartoon History series, spices up panels with visual gags and broad caricatures. ... a useful summary of Marcuse's thinking ..."-Publishers Weekly "Nick Thorkelson tackles the formidable task of distilling the life and work of a respected modern philosopher into a well-paced graphic biography in Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia ... serves as an excellent summary of Marcuse's ideas and his lasting influence."-Foreword Reviews "This graphic biography serves as both a chronicle of [Marcuse's] eventful, peripatetic life and an introduction to his philosophical works and political theories ... thanks to Thorkelson's sprightly, cartoonish drawings and slightly irreverent approach."-Booklist "Nick Thorkelson has crafted quite an engaging book based on the life and work of one of the great philosophers of the modern era, Herbert Marcuse. ... With a sense of great timing, Nick Thorkelson brings to the reader an essential and inspiring guide to one of our great thinkers. On each page, from one panel to the next, Mr. Thorkelson has condensed various bits of information into a seamless presentation that is easy on the eyes, both engaging and highly informative. The whole book is a delight as it is clearly organized and designed with a keen sense of style. Thorkelson's cartoons are highly sophisticated and such a pleasure to behold in their own right. You can say that the artwork expresses the Marcuse joie de vivre quite fittingly."-Comics Grinder "Boston-based cartoonist Thorkelson delivers a keen biography of thinker Herbert Marcuse. A German Jew coming of age in the turbulent times after World War I, Marcuse rubs elbows with everyone from Heidegger to Horkheimer before finding relative safety in the U.S. There, he plugs into the social movements of the '60s and pens the influential One Dimensional Man, a scathing critique of consumerism. A smart accessible primer on a fascinating mind that never ceased to challenge the present 'with its own alternative possibilities.'"-Broken Pencil "A warm, funny, richly detailed biography. Thorkelson has found a powerful graphic style and narrative voice that animate Marcuse's life and his theory of rebellion. As both personal saga and primer on radical political philosophy, it could not be more relevant to today's resistance movement."-Dan Wasserman, editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe "Thorkelson's graphic life of Herbert Marcuse is a riotous romp through 20th-century philosophy. The story of a man who exists at the eye of storm of ideas, of movements and of social strategies. With workers and students on the streets of Paris once more, Marcuse's life and work has never been more relevant."-Kate Evans, author of Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography "A delightful graphic novel about a social theorist who deeply influenced my generation. In contrast to much other writing about Marcuse, this is told from the perspective of social movements--a New Left that he embraced, supported and theorized."-Linda Gordon, historian and co-author of Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements "Nick Thorkelson's graphic biography of Herbert Marcuse confirms my belief that our medium can convey the most complex ideas while being witty and entertaining at the same time. I learned a lot about the history of ideas, making sense of the current crisis of end-stage capitalism. As always, Nick's limber, jazzy drawings create a wide range of settings, personalities and events. His caricatures are spot on, and I especially appreciated the no-holds-barred contemporary reference."-Sharon Rudahl, author of A Dangerous Woman: A Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman "Philosopher of Utopia is art on the attack! A perfect celebration of this unique public intellectual done through a fusion of skill and imagination, Thorkelson's book provides access to the genius and the grit of this master of the dialectic."-Lowell Bergman, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Distinguished Chair in Investigative Reporting at UC Berkeley "In the age of Trump, an updated version of fascism is back, memory has become a burden, and the notion of a comprehensive politics in the age of single issues appears obsolete, if not quaint. All the more reason to read Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia. Marcuse not only connected the dots among various problems, theories, and intellectual fields, he infused them with a sense of passion, rigorousness and hope. Marcuse was a philosopher who pushed ideas into the social realm, was fearless in his critique of capitalism, and joyous in his belief that collective struggles in the service of a radical democracy were a necessity rather than an option. His ideas are arguably more relevant than they were fifty years ago because the threats to humankind are more dangerous today. Marcuse's energizing sense of critique, hope, politics, and Utopian vision are more necessary than ever, especially for the emerging generations of young activists."-Henry A. Giroux, author of American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism

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Preface by Angela Davis, who was mentored by Marcuse at the start of her career as an activist/scholar. There are many books by and about Marcuse. There are no other comics. This is the first graphic novel treatment of this cultural giant and his times. Also the first graphic book by City Lights, similarly to how Rad American Women A-Z was our first foray into children's literature, this is our first published graphic book. To present Marcuse's work in comic form makes the importance of his vision "new" in many ways, one of which is tracing its affinity to the critique and vision of the Occupy Movement. Paul Buhle, one of the book's editors, has edited many other graphic nonfiction books, and many of them extremely successful. The Beats (2010) was reviewed in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Book Review, Miami Herald, and the Boston Globe, and received praise from Cory Doctorow and Studs Terkel. His newest project, Red Rosa (2015), was excerpted in The Nation. Both a primer on Marcuse's life and work and an attempt to reinforce Marcuse's confidence in art as an intrinsically revolutionary force. This book is made in the vain of a historical novel with the addition of allowing space to explicit many of Marcuse's ideas on culture, politics, and philosophy. Andrew Lamas, one of the editors, is on the board of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, so the book has direct ties to the main organization devoted to studying and keeping Marcuse's works relevant in contemporary culture. The political intention behind this book is to support the utopian tradition, in times of repression. Fascism and neo-fascism prove there are worse things than liberal capitalism, but Marcuse's life, as depicted in our book, argues for the idea that liberal capitalism is not freedom, and therefore not good enough for human beings. We also hope to intervene in intellectual history discussions by rescuing "critical theory" from its reputation for defeatism. Culturally, we seek to reinforce Marcuse's confidence in art as an intrinsically revolutionary force rather than an accomplice of quietism. Pursuing blurbs from those in the indepdenent comics/nonfiction comics world & the philosophy/cultural critique world including Patrick Rosenkranz, Art Spiegalman, Bill Kartapoulous, Joe Sacco, Ed Piskor, Sarah Glidden, Noah Van Sciver, Ariel Dorfman, Brad Evans, Robin D.G. Kelley, Slavjo Zizek, Henry A. Giroux, and a lot more.

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• Verlag: Consortium
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0872867854
• ISBN 13: 9780872867857
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Herausgeber: Thorkelson Nick, Buhle Paul
• Zeichner: Thorkelson Nick