One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Herbert Marcuse

Beacon Press, Oct 1, 1991 - Political Science - 320 pages

Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner, presents Marcuse's best-selling work to another generation of readers in the context of contemporary events.

Contents

• The New Forms of Control: 1
• The Closing of the Political Universe: 19
• The Conquest of the Unhappy Consciousness Repressive Desublimation: 56
• The Closing of the Universe of Discourse: 84
• OneDimensional Thought: 121
• Negative Thinking The Defeated Logic of Protest: 123
• From Negative to Positive Thinking Technological Rationality and the Logic of Domination: 144
• The Triumph of Positive Thinking OneDimensional Philosophy: 170
• The Chance of the Alternatives: 201
• The Historical Commitment of Philosophy: 203
• The Catastrophe of Liberation: 225
• Conclusion: 247
• Index: 259

Popular passages

Page xlvii - (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. Both tendencies are there, side by side—and even the one in the other.

Page xlviii - In the face of the totalitarian features of this society, the traditional notion of the “neutrality” of technology can no longer be maintained. Technology as such cannot be isolated from the use to which it is put; the technological society is a system of domination which operates already in the concept and construction of techniques. The

Page xxxiii - 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

About the author

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was born in Berlin and educated at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. He fled Germany in 1933 and arrived in the United States in 1934. Marcuse taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, and the University of California, San Diego, where he met Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss as graduate students. He is the author of numerous books, including One-Dimensional Man and Eros and Civilization.

Bibliographic information

• Title: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
• Author: Herbert Marcuse
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Beacon Press, 1991
• ISBN: 0807014176, 9780807014172
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism; Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory