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Herbert Marcuse1898–1979

In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things⁠—opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.

Herbert Marcuse on freedom

One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 71

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