Art and Liberation
Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 4
- 272 pages
- English
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About this book
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The material in this volume is a rich collection of many of Marcuse's published and unpublished writings, interviews and talks, including 'Lyric Poetry after Auschwitz', reflections on Proust, and Letters on Surrealism; a poem by Samuel Beckett for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.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- INTRODUCTION
- I THE GERMAN ARTIST NOVEL: INTRODUCTION
- II THE AFFIRMATIVE CHARACTER OF CULTURE
- III ART IN THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL SOCIETY
- IV SOCIETY AS A WORK OF ART
- V COMMENCEMENT SPEECH TO THE NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
- VI ART AS FORM OF REALITY
- VII JERUSALEM LECTURES
- VIII ART AND REVOLUTION
- IX LETTERS TO THE CHICAGO SURREALISTS
- X SHORT TAKES
- XI LYRIC POETRY AFTER AUSCHWITZ
- XII ON THE AESTHETIC DIMENSION
- XIII THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART AND POLITICS
- AFTERWORD