Herbert Marcuse and Romantic Marxist Negation and Formalist Aesthetics
摘要
Herbert Marcuse is the third of our ethical thinkers who linked the tradition of Marxist art theory to idealistic German aesthetics. I treat Marcuse as an aesthetician and ethical thinker in the tradition of German idealistic aesthetics, starting with his innovative environmental interpretation of Friedrich Schiller’s concept of aesthetic form. I end with later aesthetic and ethical dimensions of his restatement of the art of environment, as well as 1) aesthetic form, along with 2) an aesthetics of negation, and 3) even some sympathy for aesthetic realism.