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On Marcuse's Liberation Of New Sensibility

Posted on:2011-04-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S S XieFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305499014Subject:Literature and art
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Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was born and grew up in Germany. He emigrated to the United States with other members of Frankfurt School in 1933, and took root there for the rest of his life.In his life he had written a lot of works, for instance, Eros and Civilization(1955), One-Dimensional Man(1964),An Essay On Liberation(1969),Counterrevolution and Revolt(1972),The Aesthetic Dimension (1978).The text divides into three parts.The first part:the Breeding of New Sensibility.The developed industrial society is controlled and operated by the Technical Rationality. Technical Rationality becomes the standard. The nature of human is twisted. The perception is constrained.In order to revolt Technological Rationality, Marcuse proposed the New Sensibility. The New Sensibility is liberated and counter-resistant and is born by the art.The second part:New Sensibility and political revolution's meeting and parting.In Marcuse's An Essay On Liberation, he thinks the New Sensibility has close relationship with the political revolution. The New Sensibility needs the promotion of the political revolution.In Marcuse's Counterrevolution and Revolt, he thinks the New Sensibility has a little relationship with the political revolution. In Marcuse's The Aesthetic Dimension, he thinks the New Sensibility is independent. The New Sensibility doesn't need the promotion of the political revolution.The third part:New Sensibility and the way of the liberation of art.Marcuse thinks the New Sensibility is born by the automatic art. Finally, he thinks the traditional outstanding art is the real automatic art.
Keywords/Search Tags:Herbert Marcuse, New Sensibility, Liberation, The Autonomy of art
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