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Herbert Marcuse's "New Sensibility"

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Hegel's Dialectical Process

The term aesthetic, Marcusea writes, may serve to designate the quality of the productive creative process in an environment of freedom. Technique would translate subjective sensibility into objective form into reality. This is again Hegel's dialectic. Subjective and objective are opposites that have to be dialectically synthesized into something higher into the concrete or to the absolute. And it's killing me that I can't think of the guy's name. Called this Alfhaven. When Hegel read this, he was taken by that word. And that's where he said this word has speculative and mystical content. That's how we're going to get to liberation.

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