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and radical social transformation.The material in this volume is a rich collection of many of Marcuse?s published and unpublished writings, interviews and talks, including ?Lyric Poetry after Auschwitz?, reflections on Proust, and Letters on Surrealism; a poem by Samuel Beckett for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...
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