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In The Aesthetic Dimension (1978) Herbert Marcuse argued that in advanced industrial societies the aesthetic dimension represented the last best hope for challenging the stifling constraints of one-dimensional thought. For him, “art subverts the dominant consciousness, the ordinary experience” (p. ix) through introducing into life a dimension of experience that does not conform to the prevailing logic.
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Brookfield, S. (2012). Radical Aesthetics. In: Hall, B.L., Clover, D.E., Crowther, J., Scandrett, E. (eds) Learnning and Educationfor a Bettter World. International Issues in adult Education, vol 10. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-979-4_8
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