La palabra sensible: Herbert Marcuse, James Baldwin y Allen Ginsberg

Abstract

In the last years of The Sixties, german philosopher Herbert Marcuse developed the idea of “new sensibility” in order to caracterize a set of thoughts and experiences which tend to mantain critical relationships facing the conditions of western civilization.}, its logics, potencialities, and limits. Taking Marcuse’s idea critically, we propose to track two literary works —Allen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra” and James Baldwin’s “Previous Condition”— looking for ways of processing new possibilities for bodies, perception and relationship experiences; this way, we would like to define some traces in order to be able to think about the senses through which a “new aesthetic ambient” configured a vital part of the transformation desires that marked the Sixties.