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Herbert Marcuse słynne cytaty

„Wysublimowana seksualność jest zapewne nieprzyzwoita, pełna lubieżności, więc całkowicie niemoralna – i właśnie dlatego zupełnie nieszkodliwa.”

Herbert Marcuse

„Młodość sama w sobie jest kategorią rewolucyjną, a ucisk represywno-technologicznej cywilizacji dotyka każdego. Nośnikiem i zaczynem sprzeciwu wobec systemu może być studencki radykalizm oraz opór wszelkich grup mniejszościowych, zepchniętych na społeczny margines, bez względu na ich położenie względem środków produkcji. Włączyć się do niego może każda jednostka doświadczająca potrzeby oswobodzenia z okowów „społeczeństwa jednowymiarowego.””

Herbert Marcuse

w 1968. <br class="br">Źródło: baader-meinhof.org.pl, 19 czerwca 2010 http://www.baader-meinhof.org.pl/to-polityczne/551-maoistowskie-elementy-w-dziaalnoci-zachodnioniemieckiej-skrajnej-lewicy

„Kryterium wolnego wyboru nie może być nigdy kryterium absolutnym, ani też nie jest ono całkowicie względne. Wolny wybór panów nie znosi panów i niewolników. Wolny wybór spośród szerokiej różnorodności dóbr i usług nie oznacza wolności, jeśli te dobra i usługi podtrzymują społeczną kontrolę nad życiem w znoju i strachu – to znaczy, gdy utwierdzają alienację. A spontaniczne odtwarzanie przez jednostkę z góry narzuconych potrzeb nie ustanawia autonomii; świadczy tylko o skuteczności kontroli.”

Herbert Marcuse

Źródło: Człowiek jednowymiarowy, Warszawa 1991, s. 25

Herbert Marcuse: Cytaty po angielsku

“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”

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Herbert Marcuse

“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.”

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Herbert Marcuse

“Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.”

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“Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, who does not — in his mind — undo the facts. Abstractness is the very life of thought, the token of its authenticity.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 134

“Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 14

“Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 12

“The way in which a society organizes the life of its members … is one “project” of realization among others. But once the project has become operative in the basic institutions and relations, it tends to become exclusive and to determine the development of the society as a whole.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. xlviii

“The contemporary mathematical and symbolic logic is certainly very different from its classical predecessor, but they share the radical opposition to dialectical logic. In terms of this opposition, the old and the new formal logic express the same mode of thought. it is purged from that “negative” which loomed so large at the origins of logic and of philosophic thought — the experience of the denying, deceptive, falsifying power of the established reality. And with the elimination of this experience, the conceptual effort to sustain the tension between “is” and “ought”, and to subvert the established universe of discourse in the name of its own truth is likewise eliminated from all thought which is to be objective, exact, and scientific. For the scientific subversion of the immediate experience which establishes the truth of science as against that of immediate experience does not develop the concepts which carry in themselves the protest and the refusal. The new scientific truth which they oppose to the accepted one does not contain in itself the judgment that condemns the established reality. … In contrast, dialectical thought is and remains unscientific to the extent to which it is such judgment.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 139-140

“The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.”

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Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 76

“Functional communication is only the outer layer of the one- dimensional universe in which man is trained to target—to translate the negative into the positive so that he can continue to function, reduced but fit and reasonably well. The institutions of free speech and freedom of thought do not hamper the mental coordination with the established reality. What is taking place is a sweeping redefinition of thought itself, of its function and content. The coordination of the individual with his society reaches into those layers of the mind where the very concepts are elaborated which are designed to comprehend the established reality. These concepts are taken from the intellectual tradition and translated into operational terms—a translation which has the effect of reducing the tension between thought and reality by weakening the negative power of thought.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 104

“[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 62

“Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such “transcending” analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. xliii

“To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 61

“It is the sphere farthest removed from the concreteness of society which may show most clearly the extent of the conquest of thought by society.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 104

“The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 57

“This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 97

“No, you cannot expect people to understand the higher reaches of philosophy. Culture should be taken out of the hands of the dollar chasers. We need a national subsidy for literature. It is disgraceful that artists are treated like peddlers and that art works have to be sold like soap.”

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Herbert Marcuse

Negations: Essays in Critical Theory (1968)

“Operational analysis … cannot raise the decisive question whether the consent itself was not the work of manipulation—a question for which the actual state of affairs provides ample justification. The analysis cannot raise it because it would transcend its terms toward transitive meaning—toward a concept of democracy which would reveal the democratic election as a rather limited democratic process. Precisely such a non-operational concept is the one rejected by the authors as “unrealistic” because it defines democracy on too articulate a level as the clear-cut control of representation by the electorate—popular control as popular sovereignty.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 116

“The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful. But this distinction itself must be validated. Men must come to see it and to find their way from false to true consciousness, from their immediate to their real interest. They can do so only if they live in need of changing their way of life, of denying the positive, of refusing. It is precisely this need which the established society manages to repress to the degree to which it is capable of “delivering the goods” on an increasingly large scale, and using the scientific conquest of nature for the scientific conquest of man.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. xlv-xlvi

“Who is, in the classical conception, the subject that comprehends the ontological condition of truth and untruth? It is the master of pure contemplation (theoria), and the master of a practice guided by theoria, i. e., the philosopher-statesman. To be sure, the truth which he knows and expounds is potentially accessible to everyone. Led by the philosopher, the slave in Plato’s Meno is capable of grasping the truth of a geometrical axiom, i. e., a truth beyond change and corruption. But since truth is a state of Being as well as of thought, and since the latter is the expression and manifestation of the former, access to truth remains mere potentiality as long as it is not living in and with the truth. And this mode of existence is closed to the slave — and to anyone who has to spend his life procuring the necessities of life. Consequently, if men no longer had to spend their lives in the realm of necessity, truth and a true human existence would be in a strict and real sense universal. Philosophy envisages the equality of man but, at the same time, it submits to the factual denial of equality. For in the given reality, procurement of the necessities is the life-long job of the majority, and the necessities have to be procured and served so that truth (which is freedom from material necessities) can be. Here, the historical barrier arrests and distorts the quest for truth; the societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition. If truth presupposes freedom from toil, and if this freedom is, in the social reality, the prerogative of a minority, then the reality allows such a truth only in approximation and for a privileged group. This state of affairs contradicts the universal character of truth, which defines and “prescribes” not only a theoretical goal, but the best life of man qua man, with respect to the essence of man. For philosophy, the contradiction is insoluble, or else it does not appear as a contradiction because it is the structure of the slave or serf society which this philosophy does not transcend. Thus it leaves history behind, unmastered, and elevates truth safely above the historical reality. There, truth is reserved intact, not as an achievement of heaven or in heaven, but as an achievement of thought — intact because its very notion expresses the insight that those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 128-130

“The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 70

“The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 32

“Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka An Essay on Liberation

An Essay on Liberation Beacon Press, 1969, p. 109 http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm <br class="br">An Essay on Liberation (1969)

“At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to the established society of enslavement. … Those who bore the brunt of the untrue reality and who, therefore, seemed to be most in need of attaining its subversion were not the concern of philosophy. It abstracted from them and continued to abstract from them.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 134-135

“The methods of logical procedure are very different in ancient and modem logic, but behind all difference is the construction of a universally valid order of thought, neutral with respect to material content. Long before technological man and technological nature emerged as the objects of rational control and calculation, the mind was made susceptible to abstract generalization. Terms which could be organized into a coherent logical system, free from contradiction or with manageable contradiction, were separated from those which could not. Distinction was made between the universal, calculable, “objective” and the particular, incalculable, subjective dimension of thought.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 137-138

“An autonomous electorate, free because it is free from indoctrination and manipulation, would indeed be on a “level of articulate opinion and ideology” which is not likely to be found. Therefore, the concept has to be rejected as “unrealistic”—has to be if one accepts the factually prevailing level of opinion and ideology as prescribing the valid criteria for sociological analysis. And—if indoctrination and manipulation have reached the stage where the prevailing level of opinion has become a level of falsehood, where the actual state of affairs is no longer recognized as that which it is, then an analysis which is methodologically committed to reject transitive concepts commits itself to a false consciousness. Its very empiricism is ideological.”

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Herbert Marcuse książka One-Dimensional Man

Źródło: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 117