1st Edition

Art and Liberation Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 4

By Herbert Marcuse, Douglas Kellner Copyright 2007
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction to The German Artist Novel  2. 'The Affirmative Character of Culture'  3. 'Art in the One-Dimensional Society'  4. 'Society as a Work of Art'  5. 'Commencement Speech for the New England Conservatory of Music'  6. 'Art as a Form of Reality'  7. Jerusalem Lectures 1971  8. 'Art and Revolution'  9. 'Letters to the Surrealists'  10. Short Takes  11. Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz  12. Interview with Larry Hartwick: On the Aesthetic Dimension  13. Interview with Richard Kearney: The Philosophy of Art and Politics

 

Biography

Herbert Marcuse, Douglas Kellner