Against Orthodoxy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. The Unknown Herbert Marcuse

   • Stanley Aronowitz

   Pages 1-19

3. Between Criticism and Ethnography: Raymond Williams and the Invention of Cultural Studies

   • Stanley Aronowitz

   Pages 21-34

4. A Critique of Methodological Reason

   • Stanley Aronowitz, Robert Ausch

   Pages 35-57

5. Georg Lukács’s Destruction of Reason

   • Stanley Aronowitz

   Pages 59-72

6. Henri Lefebvre: The Ignored Philosopher and Social Theorist

   • Stanley Aronowitz

   Pages 73-91

7. Gramsci’s Theory of Political Organization

   • Stanley Aronowitz

   Pages 93-104

8. Max Horkheimer’s Critical Theory

   • Stanley Aronowitz

   Pages 105-111

9. Paulo Freire’s Radical Democratic Humanism

   • Stanley Aronowitz

   Pages 113-127

10. Herbert Marcuse’s Concept of Eros

    • Stanley Aronowitz

    Pages 129-142

11. Marx, Braverman, and the Logic of Capital

    • Stanley Aronowitz

    Pages 143-179

12. Back Matter

    Pages 181-189

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The book contains groundbreaking and immersive essays on crucial 20th Century scholars on social theory, discussed and analyzed from a radical, critical theory perspective. Aronowitz provides his unique and lauded critical eye toward the leading thinkers of our age, crafting an immersive set of essays on radical thought.

• Culture and politics
• subjectivity
• empowerment
• critical theory
• eros
• Karl Marx
• logic
• Marx
• philosophy
• politics
• social theory

"Stanley Aronowitz is a national treasure and he proves it once again with Against Orthodoxy. Every page bristles with brilliance as he weaves his way through the work of some of the intellectual giants of social theory. Not only does this book provide a witness to public memory, it also ties together different strands of social theory while providing a historical and relational context for understanding the writers and theories under discussion. This book is invaluable for both academics and the wider public; a gift to theory and why it matters a gift to all of us struggling for a better and more just world." - Henry Giroux, McMaster University, Canada, Author of The Violence of Organized Forgetting

Stanley Aronowitz is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban education at the City University of New York Graduate Center, USA. His classic study of the US working class, False Promises is still in print forty-two years after it was first published and he has written over 19 books during his career. He is also a veteran political activist and cultural critic, an advocate for organized labor and a member of the interim consultative committee of the International Organization for a Participatory Society.

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