The Aesthetic Dimension

The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics

Cover of the first edition
Author	Herbert Marcuse
Original title	Die Permanenz der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte marxistische Ästhetik
Translator	Herbert Marcuse, Erica Sherover
Language	German
Subject	Aesthetics
Published	1977 (Carl Hanser Verlag, in German) 1978 (Beacon Press, in English)
Publication place	Germany
Media type	Print
Pages	88
ISBN	0-333-26674-9

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The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (German: Die Permanenz der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte marxistische Ästhetik) is a 1977 book on aesthetics by the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, in which the author provides an account of modern art's political implications and relationship with society at large.

It is the final major work by Marcuse, a founding member of the Frankfurt School.