Art as a Mirage of Freedom. Towards a Critical Recovery of Herbert Marcuse's Consideration of Aesthetics
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art, aesthetics, freedom, capitalism, technologyAbstract
This paper reconstructs the consideration of the aesthetic experience of art in Marcuse's critical theory, with special emphasis on the problem of freedom. In this sense, it unfolds in three central moments: (1) Marcuse's diagnosis of the mechanisms of domination in the capitalism of his time and the characterization of the ideological sense that technology acquires in this framework; (2) the development of what the author calls the affirmative character of art; and (3) the central aspects of his theory of social emancipation, which finds in the aesthetic dimension a key element of its historical concretization. Finally, (4) the relevance of Marcuse's philosophy for addressing the problems raised is highlighted, while proposing some questions in the direction of a critical review of this influential theory, which allows us to evaluate the theoretical fertility of its postulates to address, today, the problem of liberation.
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