Transcending Herbert Marcuse on Alienation, Art and the Humanities Essa

Transcending Herbert Marcuse on Alienation, Art and the Humanities (1) ABSTRACT This paper discusses how higher(prenominal) education can help us in accomplishing our humanization. It looks at the faultfinding educational theory of Herbert Marcuse, and examines his notion of the dis-alienating power of the aesthetical imagination. In his view, aesthetic education can become the foundation of a re-humanizing searing theory. I question the epistemological underpinnings of Marcuses educational philosophy and suggest an alternative capable framework for interpreting and releasing the emancipatory power of education. Truth is ugly. We possess machination lest we perish of the truth.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power 822 What is the relationship of truth to beauty, learning to art, political education to human flourishing? Philosophers from Confucius and Aristotle to John Dewey and Paulo Freire have got investigated, as the axial human problem, how education is to help us in acc omplishing our own humanization. The coetaneous search for a genuinely critical theory and an authentically democratic high society continues that project. But what can make theory critical, education liberating, society democratic? It is necessary to theorize our society critically if we are to have a vehicle for correctly informed transformative practice. The problem is that much of what is called critical theory today is rooted in ideas developed by Herbert Marcuse, ooze Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, and Georg Lukacs. What I want to argue here is that their work has tended to formulate a particular approach to aesthetic educationand a unique version of a philosophical humanismwhich is then presented as critical theoryagainst the debilitating fragmentation ... ...88) Jurgen Habermas, Von Lukacs zu Adorno Rationalisierung amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Verdinglichung, in Theorie des kommunikativen HandelnsBand I (Fft Suhrkamp, 1981). (4) Karl Marx, Das Kapital(Stuttgart Alfred Kroener Verlag, 1965) p. 52.(5) Aeron Haynie, Imperialism and the Construction of Femininity in Mid-Victorian Fiction(Gainesville University of Florida, Ph.D. dissertation, 1994). (6) Martin Heidegger in Marcuses notes to seminar, Heidegger, Einfuhrung in das akademische Studium. Sommer 1929 Herbert Marcuse Archiv of the Stadt- und Universit. tsbibliothek, Frankfurt, Catalog 0013.01, p. 6.Works Cited1941 RR Reason and Revolution, Hegel and the ascend of Social Theory (BostonBeacon, 1960).1972 CR Counterrevolution and Revolt (Boston Beacon, 1972).1978 AD The Aesthetic Dimension, Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (Boston Beacon, 1978).