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Herbert Marcuse [marˈkuːzə] war ein deutsch-US-amerikanischer Philosoph, Politologe und Soziologe.

✵ 19. Juli 1898 – 29. Juli 1979
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Herbert Marcuse Berühmte Zitate

„Von Anbeginn an war die Freiheit des Unternehmens keineswegs ein Segen. Als die Freiheit zu arbeiten oder zu verhungern bedeutete sie für die überwiegende Mehrheit der Bevölkerung Plackerei, Unsicherheit und Angst. Wäre das Individuum nicht mehr gezwungen, sich auf dem Markt als freies ökonomisches Subjekt zu bewähren, so wäre das Verschwinden dieser Art von Freiheit eine der größten Errungenschaften der Zivilisation.“

Der eindimensionale Mensch, Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Alfred Schmidt, 3. Aufl., 1989, Suhrkamp Verlag KG, ISBN 3518579215, S. 22 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=AiItAQAAIAAJ&q=verhungern
"Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this kind of freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization." - One-Dimensional Man. Beacon: Boston 1964
Der eindimensionale Mensch (1964)

„Die freie Wahl der Herren schafft die Herren oder die Sklaven nicht ab.“

Der eindimensionale Mensch. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Alfred Schmidt. Suhrkamp 1989, S. 27 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=AiItAQAAIAAJ&q=schafft
"Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves." - One-Dimensional Man. Beacon: Boston 1964
Der eindimensionale Mensch (1964)

„Die Menschen entdecken sich in ihren Waren wieder, sie finden ihre Seele in ihrem Auto, ihrem Hi-Fi Empfänger“

Der eindimensionale Mensch, 1989, Suhrkamp Verlag KG, ISBN 3518579215, S. 29 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=AiItAQAAIAAJ&q=auto
"The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment." - One-Dimensional Man. Beacon: Boston 1964
Der eindimensionale Mensch (1964)

„Die Beziehungen der Menschen untereinander werden zunehmend vom maschinellen Arbeitsprozeß vermittelt.“

Einige gesellschaftliche Folgen moderner Technologie, in: Schriften, Bd. 3, Springe 2004, S. 292 f.

„Freiheit ist Befreiung.“

Repressive Toleranz, D-Springe, Klampen-Verlag 2004, S. 140
"Freedom is liberation, a specific historical process in theory and practice, and as such it has its right and wrong, its truth and falsehood." - Repressive Tolerance. In Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore, Jr., and Herbert Marcuse: A Critique of Pure Tolerance. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969, pp. 95-137, marcuse.org https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm

Herbert Marcuse Zitate und Sprüche

„Der Tauschwert zählt, nicht der Wahrheitswert. In ihm faßt sich die Rationalität des Status quo zusammen, und alle andersartige Rationalität wird ihr unterworfen.“

Der eindimensionale Mensch. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Alfred Schmidt. Suhrkamp 1989, S. 77 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=AiItAQAAIAAJ&q=tauschwert
"Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to it." - One-Dimensional Man. Beacon: Boston 1964
Der eindimensionale Mensch (1964)

„Komfort, Geschäft und berufliche Sicherheit können in einer Gesellschaft, die sich auf und gegen nukleare Zerstörung vorbereitet, als allgemeines Beispiel versklavender Zufriedenheit dienen.“

Der eindimensionale Mensch. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Alfred Schmidt. Suhrkamp 1989, S. 254 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=AiItAQAAIAAJ&q=versklavender
"Comfort, business, and job security in a society which prepares itself for and against nuclear destruction may serve as a universal example of enslaving contentment." - One-Dimensional Man. Beacon: Boston 1964
Der eindimensionale Mensch (1964)

„Permanenter ästhetischer Umsturz - das ist die Aufgabe der Kunst.“

Konterrevolution und Revolte. Suhrkamp 1987, S. 105 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=RBhVAAAAYAAJ&q=permanenter
"Permanent aesthetic subversion - this is the way of art" - Counterrevolution and Revolt. Beacon: Boston 1964, S. 107

„Werte, die aus der objektiven Realität herausgelöst sind, werden subjektiv.“

Der eindimensionale Mensch. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Alfred Schmidt. Suhrkamp 1989, S. 162 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=AiItAQAAIAAJ&q=werte
"values separated out from the objective reality become subjective." - One-Dimensional Man. Beacon: Boston 1964
Der eindimensionale Mensch (1964)

„Diese Gesellschaft ist insofern obszön, als sie einen erstickenden Überfluss an Waren produziert und schamlos zur Schau stellt, während sie draußen ihre Opfer der Lebenschancen beraubt; obszön, weil sie sich und ihre Mülleimer vollstopft, während sie die kärglichen Lebensmittel in den Gebieten ihrer Aggression vergiftet und niederbrennt; obszön in den Worten und dem Lächeln der Politiker und Unterhalter; in ihren Gebeten, ihrer Ignoranz und in der Weisheit ihrer gehüteten Intellektuellen. […] Nicht das Bild einer nackten Frau, die ihre Schamhaare entblößt, ist obszön, sondern das eines Generals in vollem Wichs, der seine in einem Aggressionskrieg verdienten Orden zur Schau stellt;“

Versuch über die Befreiung (1969), Suhrkamp Verlag, S. 21 f.
"This society is obscene in producing and indecently exposing a stifling abundance of wares while depriving its victims abroad of the necessities of life; obscene in stuffing itself and its garbage cans while poisoning and burning the scarce foodstuffs in the fields of its aggression; obscene in the words and smiles of its politicians and entertainers; in its prayers, in its ignorance, and in the wisdom of its kept intellectuals. [...] Obscene is not the picture of a naked woman who exposes her pubic hair but that of a fully clad general who exposes his medals rewarded in a war of aggression;" - An Essay on Liberation. Boston: Beacon, 1969, pp. 7-8

Herbert Marcuse: Zitate auf Englisch

“The world of their [the bourgeois’] predecessors was a backward, pre-technological world, a world with the good conscience of inequality and toil, in which labor was still a fated misfortune; but a world in which man and nature were not yet organized as things and instrumentalities. With its code of forms and manners. with the style and vocabulary of its literature and philosophy. this past culture expressed the rhythm and content of a universe in which valleys and forests, villages and inns, nobles and villains, salons and courts were a part of the experienced reality. In the verse and prose of this pre-technological culture is the rhythm of those who wander or ride in carriages. who have the time and the pleasure to think, contemplate, feel and narrate. It is an outdated and surpassed culture, and only dreams and childlike regressions can recapture it. But this culture is, in some of its decisive elements. also a post-technological one. Its most advanced images and positions seem to survive their absorption into administered comforts and stimuli; they continue to haunt the consciousness with the possibility of their rebirth in the consummation of technical progress. They are the expression of that free and conscious alienation from the established forms of life with which literature and the arts opposed these forms even where they adorned them. In contrast to the Marxian concept, which denotes man's relation to himself and to his work in capitalist society, the artistic alienation is the conscious transcendence of the alienated existence—a “higher level” or mediated alienation. The conflict with the world of progress, the negation of the order of business, the anti-bourgeois elements in bourgeois literature and art are neither due to the aesthetic lowliness of this order nor to romantic reaction—nostalgic consecration of a disappearing stage of civilization. “Romantic” is a term of condescending defamation which is easily applied to disparaging avant-garde positions, just as the term “decadent” far more often denounces the genuinely progressive traits of a dying culture than the real factors of decay. The traditional images of artistic alienation are indeed romantic in as much as they are in aesthetic incompatibility with the developing society. This incompatibility is the token of their truth. What they recall and preserve in memory pertains to the future: images of a gratification that would dissolve the society which suppresses it”

Herbert Marcuse buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 59-60

“Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.”

Herbert Marcuse buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 66-67

“They [great works of literature] are invalidated not because of their literary obsolescence. Some of these images pertain to contemporary literature and survive in its most advanced creations. What has been invalidated is their subversive force, their destructive content—their truth. In this transformation, they find their home in everyday living. The alien and alienating oeuvres of intellectual culture become familiar goods and services. Is their massive reproduction and consumption only a change in quantity, namely, growing appreciation and understanding, democratization of culture? The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a “higher” order, which should not and indeed did not disturb the order of business. What has changed in the contemporary period is the difference between the two orders and their truths. The absorbent power of society depletes the artistic dimension by assimilating its antagonistic contents. In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference. Prior to the advent of this cultural reconciliation, literature and art were essentially alienation, sustaining and protecting the contradiction—the unhappy consciousness of the divided world, the defeated possibilities, the hopes unfulfilled, and the promises betrayed. They were a rational, cognitive force, revealing a dimension of man and nature which was repressed and repelled in reality.”

Herbert Marcuse buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 60-61

“the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.”

Herbert Marcuse buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 7

“If the progressing rationality of advanced industrial society tends to liquidate, as an “irrational rest,” the disturbing elements of Time and Memory, it also tends to liquidate the disturbing rationality contained in this irrational rest. Recognition and relation to the past as present counteracts the functionalization of thought by and in the established reality. It militates against the closing of the universe of discourse and behavior it renders possible the development of concepts which destabilize and transcend the closed universe by comprehending it as historical universe. Confronted with the given society as object of its reflection, critical thought becomes historical consciousness as such, it is essentially judgment. Far from necessitating an indifferent relativism, it searches in the real history of man for the criteria of truth and falsehood, progress and regression. The mediation of the past with the present discovers the factors which made the facts, which determined the war of life, which established the masters and the servants; it projects the limits and the alternatives. When this critical consciousness speaks, it speaks “le langage de la connaissance” (Roland Barthes) which breaks open a closed universe of discourse and its petrified structure. The key terms of this language are not hypnotic nouns which evoke endlessly the same frozen predicates. They rather allow of an open development; they even unfold their content in contradictory predicates. The Communist Manifesto provides a classical example. Here the two key terms, Bourgeoisie and Proletariat, each “govern” contrary predicates. The “bourgeoisie” is the subject of technical progress, liberation, conquest of nature, creation of social wealth, and of the perversion and destruction of these achievements. Similarly, the "proletariat” carries the attributes of total oppression and of the total defeat of oppression. Such dialectical relation of opposites in and by the proposition is rendered possible by the recognition of the subject as an historical agent whose identity constitutes itself in and against its historical practice, in and against its social reality. The discourse develops and states the conflict between the thing and its function, and this conflict finds linguistic expression in sentences which join contradictory predicates in a logical unit—conceptual counterpart of the objective reality. In contrast to all Orwellian language, the contradiction is demonstrated, made explicit, explained, and denounced.”

Herbert Marcuse buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 99-100

“No matter how close and familiar the temple or cathedral were to the people who lived around them, they remained in terrifying or elevating contrast to the daily life of the slave, the peasant, and the artisan—and perhaps even to that of their masters. Whether ritualized or not, art contains the rationality of negation. In its advanced positions, it is the Great Refusal—the protest against that which is. The modes in which man and things are made to appear, to sing and sound and speak, are modes of refuting, breaking, and recreating their factual existence. But these modes of negation pay tribute to the antagonistic society to which they are linked. Separated from the sphere of labor where society reproduces itself and its misery, the world of art which they create remains, with all its truth, a privilege and an illusion. In this form it continues, in spite of all democratization and popularization, through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The “high culture” in which this alienation is celebrated has its own rites and its own style. The salon, the concert, opera. theater are designed to create and invoke another dimension of reality. Their attendance requires festive-like preparation; they cut off and transcend everyday experience. Now this essential gap between the arts and the order of the day, kept open in the artistic alienation, is progressively closed by the advancing technological society. And with its closing, the Great Refusal is in turn refused; the “other dimension” is absorbed into the prevailing state of affairs. The works of alienation are themselves incorporated into this society and circulate as part and parcel of the equipment which adorns and psychoanalyzes the prevailing state of affairs.”

Herbert Marcuse buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 63-64

“The happy consciousness is shaky enough—a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.”

Herbert Marcuse buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

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

“The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.”

Herbert Marcuse buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 145-146

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