A Study On Herbert Marcuse’s Aesthetic Thought

Herbert Marcuse is an important representative of Frankfurt School and an important theorist in western modern aesthetics.His aesthetic thought puts forward a series of systematic problems,among which shaping modern people’s new sensibility and shaping aesthetic utopia is its core,which embodies the humanistic spirit of his aesthetic thought.The first chapter attempts to clarify the practical problems faced by Marcuse’s aesthetics.In his own works,Marcuse fully explains the expansion of technical rationality and the present situation of human poverty in modern western society,and fully explains that technical rationality deviates from the vision of human freedom,dissolves the negative thinking of human beings and the fact that people are induced to obey reality,as well as many problems,such as people facing additional repression,false needs and the simplification of art,and so on.The second chapter deeply studies the aesthetic countermeasures given by Marcuse in the face of various practical problems,puts forward the concept of new sensibility,calls for shaping the new sensibility of human beings,shaping the negative soul,innovating the language and perfecting the dialectical logic,and puts forward the idea of constructing aesthetic utopia,so as to eliminate the inner abstinence of human beings and establish the negative art.The third chapter probes into the theoretical background of Marcuse’s aesthetic thought.In order to clarify the development process of enlightenment philosophy and humanism theory,from the rational problem and humanistic problem in Marcuse’s aesthetic thought to the modern problem,this paper tries to explain the modern background of Marcuse’s aesthetic thought,and further clarifies that the essence of modern problem is rational problem and humanistic problem.