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What is 'affirmate culture'? in which book herbert marcuse proposed the notion of 'affirmative culture' ?
What is 'Affirmate Culture'? In which book Herbert Marcuse proposed the notion of 'Affirmative Culture' ?
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culture which is the domain of art develops in tension with the overall structure of a given society is called affirmate culture. culture separates itself from the social order because the values and ideals produced by the culture calls for the transcending of oppressive social reality. the culture is characterized by intellectual work, leisure, non operational thoughts, and freedom. this is the emancipatory function of art. affirmate culture represents a critical space within the social reality and it opens up the space for thinking that may then produce revolution. this is the theme of marcuse 1937 essay "the affirmative character of culture"
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Marcuse’s essay is concerned with culture and its “affirmative” character. This term refers to bourgeois culture which designates itself as “the realm of authentic values and self-contained ends in opposition to the world of social utility and means [...] Its decisive characteristic is the assertion of a universally obligatory, eternally better and more valuable world.” Marcuse’s essay is startling because it calls into question that which the liberal middle class prides itself on most: its history of humanitarian intervention through the sphere of culture. Those who engage in this way are venerated as saints: Swift, Blake, Dickens, whilst the names of actual activists are often obscure. The problem with affirmative culture is that its values are not realisable in real life – they are not even meant to be realised by the society which manufactures cultural artefacts.