Herbert Marcuse: An Aesthetics Of Liberation

by Malcolm Miles

When capitalism is clearly catastrophically out of control and its excesses cannot be sustained socially or ecologically, the ideas of Herbert Marcuse become as relevant as they were in the 1960s. This is the first English introduction to Marcuse to be published for decades, and deals specifically with his aesthetic theories and their relation to a critical theory of society. Although Marcuse is best known as a critic of consumer society, epitomised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074533038X
• ISBN13: 9780745330389
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"