This thinker claimed that, because the welfare state restricts free time, services, and intelligence, it is one of "unfreedom
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".