· 2021· Book chapter
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
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Short summary
Herbert Marcuse's seminal work argues that advanced industrial society has created a "one-dimensional" consciousness, suppressing critical thought and opposition through technological rationality and consumerism.
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Key points
- Advanced industrial society fosters a "one-dimensional" consciousness that lacks critical opposition.
- Technological rationality and consumerism serve as new forms of social control.
- Repressive desublimation channels discontent into acceptable forms, preventing genuine protest.
- The "universe of discourse" is closed, limiting thought to the existing reality.
- The book explores the historical and philosophical roots of this societal condition.
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Abstract
Introduction to the Second Edition Introduction to the First Edition The Paralysis of Criticism: Society Without Opposition ONE DIMEMSIONAL SOCIETY 1. The New forms of Control 2. The Closing of the Political Universe 3 The Conquest of the Unhappy Consciousness: Repressive Desublimation 4. The Closing of the Universe of Discourse ONE DIMENSIONAL THOUGHT 5. Negative thinking: The Defeated Logic of Protest 6. From Negative to Positive Thinking: Technological Rationality and the Logic of Domination 7. The Triumph of Positive Thinking: One-Dimensional Philosophy THE CHANCE OF THE ALTERNATIVE 8. The Historical Commitment of Philosophy 9.The Catastrophe of Liberation 10. Conclusion Index _ _
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Field: Sociology and Political Science
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