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166: 652:" for the politicization (i.e., a literal reflection of perceived political realities) of modern, reproducible art both to reflect the state of a society and to incite change. Like both Benjamin and Adorno, Marcuse believed that art promises resistance to societal repression, and that a cultural revolution is necessarily connected to a political or social revolution. Adorno (as represented mainly by his posthumous 553: 1909: 541: 665:
Marcuse then pointed to what he perceived to be the successes of high culture and translated these to all areas of art. For Marcuse, art's promise of transcendence could only be fulfilled via a conceptual independence from society, but this independence is accessible through a host of media. The
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as well. He further stated that "This standard not only allows us to distinguish between "high" and "trivial" literature, opera and operetta, comedy and slapstick, but also between good and bad art within these genres."
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This successful art must necessarily invoke a longing for something utopian and the promise of ultimate happiness represented by beauty. This symbolic longing for fulfillment will awaken us from complacency.
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the primary source of his influence for this system, but feels that the ideas would apply to
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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Die Permanenz der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte marxistische Ästhetik
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The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics
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It is the final major work by Marcuse, a founding member of the
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Marcuse stated in the book's introduction that he considered
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were the sole artistic source of potential emancipation.
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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Index


Herbert Marcuse
Aesthetics
Carl Hanser Verlag
Beacon Press
ISBN
0-333-26674-9
a series
Frankfurt School

Dialectic of Enlightenment
Eclipse of Reason
Eros and Civilization
Escape from Freedom
Minima Moralia
Negative Dialectics
One-Dimensional Man
Reason and Revolution
The Structural Transformation of
the Public Sphere

The Theory of Communicative Action
The Work of Art in the
Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Adorno
Apel
Benjamin
Fromm
Forst
Grünberg
Geuss
Habermas
Honneth

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