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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

„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.“

—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Versuch über die Befreiung

Versuch über die Befreiung, Suhrkamp Verlag, S. 21 f.

„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.“

—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

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.“

—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

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“

—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

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.“

—  Herbert Marcuse

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

„Freiheit ist Befreiung.“

—  Herbert Marcuse, Repressive Toleranz

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.“

—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

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.“

—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

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)

Über Frieden, Geschäft

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

—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Konterrevolution und Revolte

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

Über Kunst

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

—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

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)

„Dies ist die reine Form der Knechtschaft: als Instrument existieren.“

—  Herbert Marcuse

„Der Begriff der Gewalt muss als Korrelat den Begriff der Gegengewalt haben. Denn die Gewalt, die ausgeht von einer terroristischen herrschenden Gruppe ist sehr verschieden, triebmäßig und soziologisch, von der Gegengewalt, die in der Befreiung von dieser Herrschaft als Abwehr angewandt wird. Also der bloße Begriff der Gewalt reicht nicht aus, besonders heute nicht aus, um den Verhältnissen gerecht zu werden.“

—  Herbert Marcuse

„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;“

—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Versuch über die Befreiung

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

Über Weisheit, Über Frauen, Über Lächeln

Herbert Marcuse: Zitate auf Englisch

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

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

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“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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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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—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

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

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

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—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Versuch über die Befreiung

An Essay on Liberation Beacon Press, 1969, p. 109 http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm
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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: 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, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

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

“The world of immediate experience—the world in which we find ourselves living—must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.”

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—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 123

“Society is eliminating the prerogatives and privileges of feudal. aristocratic culture together with its content. The fact that the transcending truths of the fine arts, the aesthetics of life and thought, were accessible only to the few wealthy and educated was the fault of a repressive society. But this fault is not corrected by paperbacks, general education, long-playing records, and the abolition of formal dress in the theater and concert hall. The cultural privileges expressed the injustice of freedom, the contradiction between ideology and reality, the separation of intellectual from material productivity; but they also provided a protected realm in which the tabooed truths could survive in abstract integrity—remote from the society which suppressed them.”

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—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 64-65

“Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the “conquest of transcendence” achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society tends to reduce, and even absorb opposition (the qualitative difference!) in the realm of politics and higher culture, so it does in the instinctual sphere. The result is the atrophy of the mental organs for grasping the contradictions and the alternatives and, in the one remaining dimension of technological rationality, the Happy Consciousness comes to prevail.”

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—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 79

“When the whole is at stake, there is no crime except that of rejecting the whole, or not defending it. … Those who identify themselves with the whole, who are installed as the leaders and defenders of the whole can make mistakes, but they cannot do wrong—they are not guilty. They may become guilty again when this identification no longer holds, when they are gone.”

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—  Herbert Marcuse, buch Der eindimensionale Mensch

Quelle: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 82-83

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