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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society is a 1964 book by the German–American philosopher and critical theorist Herbert Marcuse, in which the author offers a wide-ranging critique of both the contemporary capitalist society of the Western Bloc and the communist society of the Soviet Union, documenting the ...
- Renford Bambrough
- 1964
Herbert Marcuse analyzes the ideology and repression of contemporary society, and explores the possibilities of social change and liberation. He challenges the one-dimensional thinking and logic of domination that perpetuate the status quo and threaten human existence.
One-Dimensional Man is probably Marcuse’s greatest work, and the one in which he develops most systematically his vision of how technologies, economies, and states coevolve to dominate both human beings and natural environments.
- Timothy W. Luke
- 2000
Herbert Marcuse critiques the technological rationality and political control of advanced industrial civilization in his book One-Dimensional Man. He argues that freedom from want, the concrete substance of all freedom, is becoming a real possibility, but it is also losing its traditional rationale and content.
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A classic critique of contemporary Western societies by the radical philosopher Herbert Marcuse. Learn about his analysis, image and hopes of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society, and its impact on the New Left.
One-Dimensional Man will vacillate throughout between two contradictory hypotheses: (1) that advanced industrial society is capable of containing qualitative change for the foreseeable future; (2) that forces and tendencies exist which may break this containment and explode the society. I do not think that a clear answer can be given.
