Abstract

PEIXOTO, Luiz Antonio da Silva. Marcuse: culture, ideology and emancipation in late capitalism. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2011, vol.11, n.1, pp.156-180. ISSN 1808-4281.

This article studies the fundamentals of critical theory of society of Herbert Marcuse in relation to the fields of cultural criticism and the critique of ideology, especially discussing the forms of domination and subjectivity prevalent in late capitalism, and the objective possibilities historical transformation towards social emancipation. The assumption adopted is that the update of Marcuse analyzes affirmative and idealistic culture, the desublimation repressive of culture and fusion of ideology and economic and social reality allows us to understand the new forms of contemporary subjectivity and explore the mechanisms of ideological domination in post modernists societies, contributing to the reasons for a critical social theory of capitalism in its neoliberal phase or global

Keywords : Affirmative culture; Critique of ideology; Social emancipation; Late capitalism.

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