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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.
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.
Table of Contents of One-Dimensional Man. Introduction: The Paralysis of Criticism: Society Without Opposition. Part I: One-Dimensional Society. 1. The New Forms of Control. 2. The Closing of the Political Universe. 3. The Conquest of the Unhappy Consciousness: Repressive Desublimation.
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.
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.
Oct 1, 1991 · One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, 2nd Edition. Paperback – October 1, 1991. Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change.
- Herbert Marcuse
