FARE 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Herbert Marcuse, Microbiological Culture, Totalitarianism
1 Oct 2016
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Two domains of knowledge divided: what is and meaning . What is became the various areas of empirical sciences . Opened up fine grained possibilities and broadened minds. Not really forced on finding concrete solutions to human problems, but upon complicating simple answers. Aim was to open richer and more multi-dimensional insights and solutions, stimulating the imagination (creating more intelligence human beings) Herbert marcuse: prevailing forms of our civilization call for operational and productive. Pure culture (art forms, inquires into value and meaning) provides the space for refuge from operational rationality: a vital space that serves as a barrier to totalitarianism. (it opens a space beyond the operational) Healthy democracy relies on spirit of the humanities, which involves searching critical thought, darling imagination, empathetic understanding of human experiences of many different kinds, and an understanding of the complexity of the world we live in.
