2005 Conference
Reading Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization After 50 Years
November 3-6, 2005
FIRST BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL HERBERT MARCUSE SOCIETY
Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Thursday, November 3, 2005
OPENING REMARKS
Arnold L. Farr, Saint Joseph’s University
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Stewart Varner, Emory University
“Eros and Globalization”
John Sanbonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
“Marcuse at the Arcade: Video Games, Repressive Desublimation, and the Emergence of Postmodern Fascism in America”
Todd Lavin, Clarion University
“Ego and Civilization: A Sobering Response to Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization”
Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania
“The Aesthetics of Life: From Burke to Marcuse”
Charles Reitz, Kansas City Community College
"Herbert Marcuse on Aesthetic Education: Imagination, Death, and Reminiscence in Eros and Civilization"
Irving Kurki, Independent Scholar
“Marcuse and the Search for a Global Alternative to Capital Domination”
Friday, November 4, 2005
Saby Ghoshray, Independent Scholar
“Understanding America’s War on Terror Through the Lens of Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization”
Aydan Turanli, Istanbul Technical University
“The Creation of the New Sensibility: Herbert Marcuse on Technology Critique”
Jim Block, DePaul University
“Psychopolitics and Vision: Marcuse’s Post-Modern Dialectic of Transformation”
Daniel Malloy, Appalachian State University
“The Two Bodies of Eros and Civilization: Marcuse’s Philosophy of the Body”
Espen Hammer, University of Essex
“Critical Utopianism: Reflections on Marcuse and Adorno”
Stephen Bronner, Rutgers University
“Herbert Marcuse and the Birth of Critical Political Theory”
Peter-Erwin Jansen, Frankfurt
“Marcuse Reception in Germany”
Amy Wendling, Erik Anderson, Michael Brownstein, and Jared Swanson, Pennsylvania State University
Panel Discussion: “Marcuse, Social Change, and Technology”
Saturday, November 5, 2005
Russell Rockwell, Fordham University
“The Marcuse/Dunayevskaya Correspondence and Marcuse’s “Philosophic Interlude” in Eros and Civilization”
Joshua Rayman
“Testing Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization”
Jeffrey Paris, University of San Francisco
“Beyond the Repressive Hypothesis? In Defense of Eros and Civilization”
Michael Schleeter, Pennsylvania State University
“The Ambiguous Reconciliation of Eros and Civilization”
Douglas Kellner, UCLA
“Herbert Marcuse and the Dialectics of Liberation: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of Eros and Civilization”
Arnold L. Farr, St. Joseph’s University
“Toward a Democratic Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Human Instincts: The Possibility of Marcuse’s Impossible Imperative”
John Abromeit, University of Chicago
“Eros and Civilization, the Anthropology of the Bourgeois Epoch and the Persistence of Backlash Politics”
Mark Cobb, Pensacola Junior College
“hooks, Lorde, and Marcuse: Exploring the Legacies of Eros and Civilization”
Brian Lightbody, Brock University
“Can We Truly Love That Which is Fleeting? An Examination of Eros, Time and Death in Eros and Civilization”
Sunday, November 6, 2005
Liam Harte, Westfield State College
“Non-Repressive Civilization or Tyranny of the Prosperous Majority? The Performance Principle in the Marketist Age”
Lucio Privitello, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
“Teaching Marcuse: A Critical Pedagogy of Aesthetic Dimensions”
Stephen Hedges, Washington Bureau
“The Marcuse-55 Model and the XXI Century”
Jason Rovito, Ryerson University
“Communicating the Historical Imperative: Marcuse in an Age of Irony”
Zachariah Robert, Harvard Law School
"Play and Performance: A Comparison of Hannah Arendt's and Herbert Marcuse's Politics"
Mitchell Aboulafia, Pennsylvania State University
“Eros and Self-Determination”
Mary Gennuso, CUNY
"Marcuse on Memory, Death and Time"
Andrew Payne, St. Joseph’s University
"Hedonism and the Project of Eros and Civilization"
Conference Convenor: Arnold L. Farr, Saint Joseph's University
Logistics & Program Support: Andrew T. Lamas, University of Pennsylvania