Download or read book Art, Alienation, and the Humanities written by Charles Reitz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2000-02-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2002 American Educational Studies Association's Critics' Choice Award By examining the aesthetic, social, and educational philosophy of Herbert Marcuse, the author documents and demonstrates the structure and movement of Marcuse's thought on art, alienation, and the humanities. Reitz's work stresses the centrality of Marcuse's argument that the arts and humanities may act as disalienating educational forces.