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The Affirmative Character of Culture

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1937
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Marcuse and Buhle: why culture mattered ↗

Culture becomes a political question

Marcuse described culture as promising fulfillment within a person’s inner life. That promise could help sustain a world that denied fulfillment in daily life. He also described art as keeping desires alive that this world could not satisfy.

In 1968, Paul Buhle cited this essay while rethinking the history of American radicalism. His use carries us from Marcuse’s argument to a named reader and a specific article.

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Marcuse, pp. 87 and 104 , Jeremy J. Shapiro translation, Art and Liberation (2007). Buhle, note 11, p. 58 , Radical America 2, no. 4 (1968).

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Date or edition: 1937.

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Cited by Buhle under the issue wording 'The Affirmative Nature of Culture.'

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