Art and Liberation
Title | Art and Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Marcuse |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 491 |
Release | 2007-01-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134774516 |
The role of art in Marcuse’s work has often been neglected, misinterpreted or underplayed. His critics accused him of a religion of art and aesthetics that leads to an escape from politics and society. Yet, as this volume demonstrates, Marcuse analyzes culture and art in the context of how it produces forces of domination and resistance in society, and his writings on culture and art generate the possibility of liberation and radical social transformation. The material in this volume is a rich collection of many of Marcuse’s published and unpublished writings, interviews and talks, including ‘Lyric Poetry after Auschwitz’, reflections on Proust, and Letters on Surrealism; a poem by Samuel Beckett for Marcuse’s eightieth birthday with exchange of letters; and many articles that explore the role of art in society and how it provides possibilities for liberation. This volume will be of interest to those new to Marcuse, generally acknowledged as a major figure in the intellectual and social milieus of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as to the specialist, giving access to a wealth of material from the Marcuse Archive in Frankfurt and his private collection in San Diego, some of it published here in English for the first time. A comprehensive introduction by Douglas Kellner reflects on the genesis, development, and tensions within Marcuse’s aesthetic, while an afterword by Gerhard Schweppenhäuser summarizes their relevance for the contemporary era.
Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation
Title | Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Katz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Philosophers |
ISBN | 9780860917502 |
An Essay on Liberation
Title | An Essay on Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Marcuse |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 1971-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807096873 |
In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dimensional Man argues that the time for utopian speculation has come. Marcuse argues that the traditional conceptions of human freedom have been rendered obsolete by the development of advanced industrial society. Social theory can no longer content itself with repeating the formula, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," but must now investigate the nature of human needs themselves. Marcuse's claim is that even if production were controlled and determined by the workers, society would still be repressive—unless the workers themselves had the needs and aspirations of free men. Ranging from philosophical anthropology to aesthetics An Essay on Liberation attempts to outline—in a highly speculative and tentative fashion—the new possibilities for human liberation. TheEssay contains the following chapters: A Biological Foundation for Socialism?, The New Sensibility, Subverting Forces—in Transition, and Solidarity.
Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation
Title | Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Kātz |
Publisher | New Left Books |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Art and Liberation
Title | Art and Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Marcuse |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2007-01-24 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1134774524 |
The role of art in Marcuse’s work has often been neglected, misinterpreted or underplayed. His critics accused him of a religion of art and aesthetics that leads to an escape from politics and society. Yet, as this volume demonstrates, Marcuse analyzes culture and art in the context of how it produces forces of domination and resistance in society, and his writings on culture and art generate the possibility of liberation and radical social transformation. The material in this volume is a rich collection of many of Marcuse’s published and unpublished writings, interviews and talks, including ‘Lyric Poetry after Auschwitz’, reflections on Proust, and Letters on Surrealism; a poem by Samuel Beckett for Marcuse’s eightieth birthday with exchange of letters; and many articles that explore the role of art in society and how it provides possibilities for liberation. This volume will be of interest to those new to Marcuse, generally acknowledged as a major figure in the intellectual and social milieus of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as to the specialist, giving access to a wealth of material from the Marcuse Archive in Frankfurt and his private collection in San Diego, some of it published here in English for the first time. A comprehensive introduction by Douglas Kellner reflects on the genesis, development, and tensions within Marcuse’s aesthetic, while an afterword by Gerhard Schweppenhäuser summarizes their relevance for the contemporary era.
Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation
Title | Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Barry M. Kātz |
Publisher | New Left Books |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Philosophers |
ISBN | 9780860901754 |
Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism
Title | Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Kellner |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 1984-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780520051768 |
This book provides a critical overview of the entirety of Marcuse s work and discusses his enduring importance. Kellner had extensive interviews with Marcuse and provides hitherto unknown information about his road to Marxism, his relations with Heidegger and Existentialism, his involvement with the Frankfurt School, and his reasons for appropriating Freud in the 1950s. In addition Kellner provides a novel interpretation of the genesis and structure of Marcuse s theory of one-dimensional society, of the development of his political theory, and of the role of aesthetics in his critical theory."