Craig Leonard, "Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse" (MIT Press, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
Macusa's Dissonance With the Politics of Art
Markus's engagement with aesthetic predates any relationship he would have had with the new left but so his writing about aesthetics or his involvement of aesthetic concerns would go back well to his own PhD dissertation. The essay was republished in a magazine a popular arts journal at the time called Arts Magazine in the same year 1967 and this became really interesting to me that a prominent member of the Frankfurt School was communicating his position on aesthetics and politics through publications. There is anecdotal information about people in the audience who are not students but like members of black mask for example in New York who were in the audience and anecdotally were uncomfortable maybe with the way that marcuzah was expressing himself. In broad strokes
