Marcusian unidimensionality, implications and alternatives from the aesthetic dimension

Abstract

A society in which relationships mediated by utility and squander have consolidated in every aspect of its members’ private lives, who identify with them and reproduce them, represents the triumph of the instrumental reason which sensibility has subordinated to. In the present article this problem is analyzed from the critique to unidimensionality proposed by Herbert Marcuse, who looks for the integration of all the human faculties, from the intellectual to those inserted in the aesthetical dimension, for the purpose of identifying the tools necessary to rescue awareness and alienated will.