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Shuvadip Das posted an Question
January 15, 2020 • 16:50 pm 15 points
  • UGC NET
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What is the Herbert Marcuse's notion of 'affirmative culture' ? (Literary Theory: Post World War II)

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    Dear Shuvadip,

    Greetings!!

       As per your query, the essay shows how culture separates itself from society or civilization and creates the space for critical thought and social change but then succumbs to the oppressive demands of bourgeois society. In affirmative culture art becomes the object of spiritual contemplation. The demand for happiness in the real world is abandoned for an internal form of happiness, the happiness of the soul. Hence, bourgeois culture creates an interior of the human being where the highest ideals of culture can be realized. This inner transformation does not demand an external transformation of the real world and its material conditions. 
        Marcuse says, "The cultural realm or civilization is characterized by intellectual work, leisure, non-operational thought, freedom".

    Thank you for asking your query. 
     

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