The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics
Cover of the first edition
Author
Herbert Marcuse
Original title
Die Permanenz der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte marxistische Ästhetik
Translator
Herbert Marcuse, Erica Sherover
Country
Germany
Language
German
Subject
Aesthetics
Published
1977 (Carl Hanser Verlag, in German)
1978 (Beacon Press, in English)
Media type
Print
Pages
88
ISBN
0-333-26674-9
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The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (German: Die Permanenz der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte marxistische Ästhetik) is a 1977 book on aesthetics by the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, in which the author provides an account of modern art's political implications and relationship with society at large.
It is the final major work by Marcuse, a founding member of the Frankfurt School.
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