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Item Details
Title:
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HERBERT MARCUSE
AN AESTHETICS OF LIBERATION |
By: |
Malcolm Miles |
Format: |
Electronic book text |

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£60.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
1849647046 |
ISBN 13: |
9781849647045 |
Publisher: |
PLUTO PRESS |
Pub. date: |
5 December, 2011 |
Series: |
Modern European Thinkers |
Pages: |
208 |
Description: |
An introduction to the ideas of a thinker who greatly influenced the 1960s protest movements |
Synopsis: |
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 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, epitomised 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 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. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Pluto Press |
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Non-returnable |
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