emancipation

Herbert Marcuse: an aesthetics of liberation

by Miles, Malcolm

fromModern European thinkers

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"When capitalism is clearly catastrophically out of control and its excesses cannot be sustained socially or ecologically, the ideas of Herbert Marcuse become as relevant as they were in the 1960s. This is the first English introduction to Marcuse to be published for decades, an…

Black slaves, Indian masters: slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the Nat…

by Krauthamer, Barbara

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Le site d'éditeur indique : "From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory…

The politics of education: culture, power, and liberation

by Freire, Paulo, Giroux, Henry A.

fromCritical studies in education series

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Constitutes the voice of a great teacher who has managed to replace the melancholic and despairing discourse of the post-modern Left with possibility and human compassion. "Educational Theory."

Critical education in the new information age

by Castells, Manuel

fromCritical perspectives series

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These essays by educators provide a portrait of ideas and developments in education that can influence the possibility of social and political change. The authors take into account feminism, ecology and media in their pursuit of ideas that can inform the fundamental practice of …

Hegel, Haiti and Universal history

by Buck-Morss, Susan, Buck-Morss, Susan

fromIlluminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

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In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to fre…

The revolutionary imaginations of greater Mexico: Chicana/o radicalism, solidarity politics, and La…

by Gómez, Alan Eladio

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Bringing to life the stories of political teatristas, feminists, gunrunners, labor organizers, poets, journalists, ex-prisoners, and other revolutionaries, The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico examines the inspiration Chicanas/os found in social movements in Mexico a…

Mr. Emerson's revolution

by Mudge, Jean McClure

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"This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of American intellectual history, whose transforming ideas greatly strengthened the two leading reform issues of his day: abolition and women's rights. A broad and deep, yet cautious revolutionary, he…

Domination and emancipation: remaking critique

by Boltanski, Luc, Fraser, Nancy, Benson, Daniel, Corcuff, Philippe

fromReinventing critical theory

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"This volume presents a translation of a debate between two major theorists: sociologist Luc Boltanski and political philosopher Nancy Fraser. The debate engages with recent developments in political philosophy and sociology, and with pressing contemporary social and political i…