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In a situation where the miserable reality can be changed only through radical political praxis, the concern with aesthetics demands justification. It would be senseless to deny the element of despair inherent in this concern: the retreat into a world of fiction where existing conditions are changed and overcome only in the realm of the imagination. However, this purely ideological conception of art is being questioned with increasing intensity. It seems that art as art expresses a truth, an experience, a necessity which, although not in the domain of radical praxis, are nevertheless essential components of revolution. With this insight, the basic conception of Marxist aesthetics, that is its treatment of art as ideology, and the emphasis on the class character of art, become again the topic of critical reexamination. 1 This discussion is directed to the following theses of Marxist aesthetics: 1. There is a definite connection between art and the material base, between art and the totality of the relations of production. With the change in production relations, art itself is transformed as part of the superstructure, although, like other ideologies, it can lag behind or anticipate

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Author

Herbert Marcuse (auth.)

Publisher

Macmillan Education UK : Imprint : Palgrave

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807024003

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Sociology

Rating

3.84 / 5 (202 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13