This thinker claimed that, because the welfare state restricts free time, services, and intelligence, it is one of "unfreedom"; that claim appears in a chapter titled "The Closing of the Political Universe". This thinker proposed that the radical qualities of art stem from transcendence of social determination in a work critiquing Orthodox Marxist (*) aesthetics. Another work by him discusses how false needs and modern consumer culture help create a "flattening" out of the antagonism between culture and social reality, through a process of "rep
This thinker claimed that, because the welfare state restricts free time, services, and intelligence, it is one of "unfreedom"; that claim appears in a chapter titled "The Closing of the Political Universe". This thinker proposed that the radical qualities of art stem from transcendence of social determination in a work critiquing Orthodox Marxist (*) aesthetics. Another work by him discusses how false needs and modern consumer culture help create a "flattening" out of the antagonism between culture and social reality, through a process of "repressive desublimation". For 10 points, name this author of The Aesthetic Dimension, a Frankfurt School philosopher who also wrote One-Dimensional Man and Eros and Civilization.
This thinker claimed that, because the welfare state restricts free time, services, and intelligence, it is one of "unfreedom"; that claim appears in a chapter titled "The Closing of the Political Universe".