EDUCATION, TECHNIQUE, BODY: HERBERT MARCUSE’S CONTRIBUTIONS

Abstract

The paper presents results of a theoretical investigation, which focuses on the possibility of survival of Education ideal in the technological society, according to the Herbert Marcuse’s contributions, whose axis is the body place in the contemporary society. According to him, the excessive importance granted to the technique weakens the subjective formation. The emphasis on the middles makes us forget the ends and does not lead to understanding, knowledge and emancipation, but eclipses this process. Marcuse points out the presence of such technical mastery over the subjects and bodies, so replacement education and politics by repressive desublimation.