Research On Marcuses’ Art Redemption Theory

The one-dimensionality of contemporary capitalist industrial society is the object of Marcuse’s criticism,and the core of his criticism is that instrumental rationality becomes the ideology of manipulating society through the technological system.Among them,the one-dimensional criticism of people is the focus of his attention.How to build a completely brand-new society,a society that enables individuals to develop freely is the fundamental issue of his concern.Under the logic of "criticism" to"salvation",Marcuse explored the theoretical path to change society-resorting to artistic aesthetics to redeem humanity and society.From the perspective of ideological origin,the distinctive feature of artistic aesthetic redemption theory is the theoretical combination of Marxism and Freudism.It draws on Marx’s early thoughts on "alienation"and "human liberation",focuses on how to realize the free and comprehensive development of human beings,and directly points to the symptoms of the overall alienation of contemporary capitalist industrial society.At the same time,it explores the nature of human beings from the perspective of biological instinct,further focuses on the liberation of eros.Finally,it is necessary to reshape the subject’s new sensibility through the aesthetic dimension of art,and to transform the technological system.achieve.Marcuse tried to use psychoanalytic philosophy as the starting point to explore how to transform the alienated society and promote the free development of people.This is also the reason why later generations call his theory Freudian Marxism.Criticism of the unidimensionality of contemporary capitalist industrial society as a whole is the logical starting point of this theory.Marcuse first reveals that the essence behind the illusion of social prosperity is the loss of human negativity,instrumental rationality has become an ideology that manipulates society through the technological system,and suppressing human instincts becomes a force that inhibits human self-development and leads to human survival.Of alienation.Furthermore,it explores the great potential of negativity,transcendence and revolution of art itself to change reality,and finally puts hope on art to change the task of one-dimensional society.The "Dimension of Aesthetics"published in his later years analyzed the possibility of the "Aesthetic Dimension" of art from the perspective of the function of art,the essence of art,and the revolutionary nature of art.Marcuse faces the emergence of new characteristics of a one-dimensional society and regards art as a transformative weapon,but what he really aims at is the subjectivity of each individual.The dissolution of the revolutionary consciousness of the proletariat,once regarded as the subject of the revolution,is just a glimpse of the dissolution of social subjectivity.It is necessary to liberate subjectivity consciousness in a fundamentally opposed industrial society dominated by instrumental rationality.Therefore,he proposed to realize the "new" of human beings.Sensibility".Marcuse’s social critique began with technical critique,and finally returned to the prospect of transforming the technical system at the practical level when he was entrusted with artistic salvation.He believes that the ideology of instrumental rationality can be transformed by the aesthetic dimension of art,ultimately turning technology into a pure liberating force.Regrettably,even if Marcuse has repeatedly emphasized the practical significance of aesthetic utopia,it is undeniable that the true revolutionary play of art is always framed in the field of consciousness that guides the subject.This is also the deep reason why the conception of relying solely on art to redeem reality has the inability to implement in the field of experience and the uncertainty in the field of operation.Appealing to artistic salvation is an attempt by Marcuse to develop Marx’s revolutionary theory.He is committed to integrating Freudism and Marxism,and proposes a new way of thinking to save the subject in order to eliminate alienation and liberate people.Its progressiveness lies in the fact that what the theory strives to focus on is what contemporary society is particularly lacking and eager for:spiritual salvation.However,because he overestimated the active range of consciousness and deviated from the fundamental position of material practice emphasized by Marx,he eventually plunged the theory of artistic redemption,which was entirely on the metaphysical level,into a practical paradox.Therefore,this theory must be examined in the perspective of Marxism.