Fascist heroism is affirmative culture intensified, not a transcendence of it.
Evidence
In the final section of his essay, Marcuse took the apparent fascist transcendence of affirmative culturewhich in reality merely intensified its self-justifying components to a degree at which they became both heroic and contemptuous of mankindand contrasted this with a genuine form of transcendence in non-affirmative culture, in which Beauty would signify the experience of joy in reality. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 241
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes apparent fascist transcendence from genuine transcendence in non-affirmative culture.
- XREF: connects to: Fascist propaganda succeeds by reproducing rather than challenging the existing mentality. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 218; Fascism exploits a pre-existing split ego rather than creating it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 312; Fascism exploits psychological tendencies rather than being caused by them. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 206 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Fascist propaganda succeeds by reproducing rather than challenging the existing mentality. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 218; Fascism exploits a pre-existing split ego rather than creating it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 312; Fascism exploits psychological tendencies rather than being caused by them. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 206 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- A class-bound modernist worldview structurally excludes the daily heroisms of the oppressed.
#complicates(0.74) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 548