Herbert Marcuse Quotes

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• The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than… Disease
• By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic… Base
• The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions… Attitude
• Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of… Art
• Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate… All
• The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real. Art
• If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up… All
• The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood… Begin
• Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false… Becomes
• Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not toexpressions of its own morality,… Abuses

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