Herbert Marcuse And The Art Of Liberation

Author : Herbert Marcuse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134774517

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Art and Liberation by Herbert Marcuse Pdf

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 The material in this volume is a rich collection of many of Marcuse’s published and unpublished writings, interviews and talks, including ‘Lyric Poetry after Auschwitz’, reflections on Proust, and Letters on Surrealism; a poem by Samuel Beckett for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.

Author : Barry Kātz
Publisher : New Left Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015005346781

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Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation by Barry Kātz Pdf

Author : Barry M. Kātz
Publisher : New Left Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : 0860901750

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Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation by Barry M. Kātz Pdf

Author : Malcolm Miles
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 074533038X

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Herbert Marcuse by Malcolm Miles Pdf

When capitalism is clearly catastrophically out of control and its excesses cannot be sustained socially or ecologically, the ideas of Herbert Marcuse become as relevant as they were in the 1960s. This is the first English introduction to Marcuse to be published for decades, and it deals specifically with his aesthetic theories and their relation to a critical theory of society. Although Marcuse is best known as a critic of consumer society, epitomized in the classic One-Dimensional Man, Malcolm Miles provides an insight into how Marcuse's aesthetic theories evolved within his broader attitudes, from his anxiety at the rise of fascism in the 1930s through his heady optimism of the 1960s, to acceptance in the 1970s that radical art becomes an invaluable progressive force when political change has become deadlocked. Marcuse's aesthetics of liberation, in which art assumes a primary role in interrupting the operation of capitalism, made him a key figure for the student movement in the 1960s. As diverse forms of resistance rise once more, a new generation of students, scholars, and activists will find Marcuse's radical theory essential to their struggle.

Author : Herbert Marcuse
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1971-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807096871

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An Essay on Liberation by Herbert Marcuse Pdf

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.

Author : Herbert Marcuse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : 0415137837

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Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse: Art and liberation by Herbert Marcuse Pdf

Author : Herbert Marcuse
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0807014338

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The Essential Marcuse by Herbert Marcuse Pdf

The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism. His words are as relevant to today's society as they were at the time they were written.

Author : Charles Reitz
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791444619

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Art, Alienation, and the Humanities by Charles Reitz Pdf

Illustrates how Marcuse's theory sheds new light on current debates in both education and society involving issues of multiculturalism, postmodernism, civic education, the "culture wars," critical thinking, and critical literacy.

Author : Herbert Marcuse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134438808

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One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse Pdf

One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an ideological bible for the emergent New Left. As Douglas Kellner notes in his introduction, Marcuse's greatest work was a 'damning indictment of contemporary Western societies, capitalist and communist.' Yet it also expressed the hopes of a radical philosopher that human freedom and happiness could be greatly expanded beyond the regimented thought and behaviour prevalent in established society. For those who held the reigns of power Marcuse's call to arms threatened civilization to its very core. For many others however, it represented a freedom hitherto unimaginable.

Author : Barry Katz
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1982-09-01
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : 0805271260

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Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation by Barry Katz Pdf

Traces the life of the German Marxist philosopher and offers a concise analysis of his philosophical writings

Author : Herbert Marcuse
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780807096567

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Counterrevolution and Revolt by Herbert Marcuse Pdf

In this book Herbert Marcuse makes clear that capitalism is now reorganizing itself to meet the threat of a revolution that, if realized, would be the most radical of revolutions: the first truly world-historical revolution. Capitalism's counterrevolution, however, is largely preventive, and in the Western world altogether preventive. Yet capitalism is producing its own grave-diggers, and Marcuse suggests that their faces may be very different from those of the wretched of the earth. The future revolution will be characterized by its enlarged scope, for not only the economic and political structure, not only class relatoins, but also humanity's relation to nature (both human and external nature) tend toward radical transformation. For the author, the "liberation of nature" is the connecting thread between the economic-political and the cultural revolution, between "changing the world" and personal emancipation.

Author : Herbert Marcuse
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807024003

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The Aesthetic Dimension by Herbert Marcuse Pdf

Developing a concept briefly introduced in Counterrevolution and Revolt, Marcuse here addresses the shortcomings of Marxist aesthetic theory and explores a dialectical aesthetic in which art functions as the conscience of society. Marcuse argues that art is the only form or expression that can take up where religion and philosophy fail and contends that aesthetics offers the last refuge for two-dimensional criticism in a one-dimensional society.

Author : Douglas Kellner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520051769

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Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism by Douglas Kellner Pdf

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."

Author : John Bokina,Timothy J. Lukes
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780700606597

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Marcuse by John Bokina,Timothy J. Lukes Pdf

Marcuse brings back to center stage one of the most celebrated and controversial philosophers of the turbulent 1960s, the man Time magazine called the "guru of the New Left." In Reason and Revolution, Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man, and other notable works, Herbert Marcuse crystallized the essence of counterculture philosophy. His neo-Marxist critique of Western capitalism was widely embraced by revolutionaries, "hippies," and an entire generation of academics who condemned political, economic, and sexual repression in Amerian society. So complete was Marcuse's identification with the New Left that, with its demise, he and his works fell out of favor. But, as this volume persuasively demonstrates, Marcuse remains vitally relevant for us today. Returning to Marcuse may recall the clash of idealistic exhuberance and tragic violence associated with Woodstock, Haight-Ashbury, the Vietnam War, 1968 Democratic Convention, Kent State, and Earth Day, as well as the passionate voices of anti-war and civil rights protesters, environmentalists, feminists, and free love advocates. But this volume does not cater to the simplistic nostalgia of aging baby-boomers. Fifteen leading Marcuse scholars, including Marcuse's son Peter, assess the philosopher's ideas in the radically different theoretical and political contexts of the 1990s. The range of topics covered is distinctly contemporary--Foucault and postmodern theories, analytical Marxism and the demise of the Soviet Union, women's studies and feminist psychoanalytic theory, aesthetic consciousness and postmodern art, radical ecology and cybernetic technology-and includes Douglas Kellner's revealing first look at the unpublished manuscripts in the Marcuse Archives in Frankfurt. Sure to excite liberal as well as irritate conservative culture warriors, these provocative essays illuminate the outlines of a Marcuse revival and the Next Left as both emerge to confront the complex challenges of our times.

Author : Tyrus Miller
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748694716

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Modernism and the Frankfurt School by Tyrus Miller Pdf

Provides a single-volume introduction to the important connection of Frankfurt School thought and modernist cultureTyrus Miller's book offers readers a focused introduction to the Frankfurt School's important attempts to relate the social, political, and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in twentieth-century art, literature, and culture. The book pursues this interaction of modernity and modernist aesthetics in a two-sided, dialectical approach. Not only, Miller suggests, can the Frankfurt School's penetrating critical analyses of the phenomena of modernity help us develop more nuanced, historically informed and contextually sensitive analyses of modernist culture; but also, modernist culture provides a field of problems, examples, and practices that intimately affected the formation of the Frankfurt School's theoretical ideas. The individual chapters, which include detailed discussions of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse as well as a survey of later Frankfurt School influenced thinkers, discuss the ideas of a given figure with an emphasis on particular artistic media or contexts: Benjamin with lyric poetry and architecture as urban art forms; Adorno with music; Marcuse with the liberationist art performances and happenings of the 1960s. Key Features:Introduces well-studied major figures such as Benjamin and Adorno in a new light, while connecting their ideas with problems in modernist art and cultureOffers a clear, thorough, and relevant survey of major ideas and figuresProvides a revisionary view of the rigorous connection of Frankfurt School theory and modernist culture