From the question of modernity to the activation of the artistic dimension A philosophical approach between Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse

Abstract

The artistic dimension was able to Play an important role in standing against the inhuman practices produced by hegemony in industrially advanced societies. The first generation theorist of the Frankfurt School Adorno and Marcuse considered it a salvation of social reality and why it is a revolutionary critical tool and strategy that liberates man from the power of consumerism, reification and alienation, and art as a strategy of rejection that works On the liberation of the aesthetic consciousness that was enslaved by instrumental rationalism, art became a paradigm of protest and the aesthetic dimension as a dimension of liberation and emancipation.
Therefore, in this research, we will shed light on the turning point made by art to get out of the dilemma of modernity and instrumental rationality, and to consider it as a new, alternative value to the human crisis in contemporary societies.