The Aesthetic Dimension

Name: The Aesthetic Dimension
Author: Herbert Marcuse

by Herbert Marcuse

Theory arguing aesthetic experience can provide resistance to instrumental rationality

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Herbert Marcuse

Marcuse became the philosopher of the New Left, arguing in Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man that advanced capitalism represses both desire and critical thought. He was the intellectual guru of the 1960s student movement.

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