Herbert Marcuse, Climate Change, and Radical Subjectivity

• In Event: 121 - Section on Marxist Sociology Refereed Roundtable Session and Business Meeting
  In Refereed Roundtable 60min: Table 08. Climate Change

Abstract

Herbert Marcuse’s analysis of technological rationality and, in particular, his conception of radical subjectivity, need to be rethought in light of changed historical circumstances. As sociologists sympathetic to the Marcusean project, and In light of the increasing dangers to the planetary ecosphere and human survival posed by global warming and consequent climate change, we need to rethink the characteristics and parameters of such a radical subjectivity along the lines of that envisioned by Marcuse, in the context of the significant changes that have occurred in advanced capitalist societies since the publication of One-Dimensional Man and subsequent writings.

Author

• Michael J. Sukhov