Study On Marcuse's "New Sensibility" Thought

In the middle of the 20th century,the degree of industrialization of capitalist society continued to deepen,and the level of productivity continued to increase.Technical rationality produced control of human beings and sensibility of human beings from economic,political,philosophical,and linguistic aspects,forming a one-dimensional Man,lost the dimension of negation and criticism of reality.It is in this context that Marcuse creatively put forward the"new sensibility" thinking.The "new sensibility" thought was put forward by Marcuse in his later years.At that time,the failure of the May storm movement prompted Marcuse to reflect on the path of human liberation and believed that if the human mind and sensibility could not be liberated,the entire human liberation would be impossible to talk about.Therefore,he cut into human liberation from the perspective of emotional liberation."New sensibility,means the harmonious unity of reason and sensibility,which means the recovery of human”sensibility,and the liberation of eroticism.How to achieve "new sensibility",Marcuse proposed the path of artistic liberation,language revolution and cultural rejection.The "new sensibility" thought put forward by Marcuse prompted people to start thinking about the value and meaning of hxunan beings and to restore the subjectivity of human beings.However,we should also see that the "new sensibility" thought is full of utopian colors and faces the dilemma of emotional liberation and institutional change...