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

by Marcuse, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780807014172
• ISBN10: 0807014176
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-10-01
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

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. "Marcuse shows himself to be one of the most radical and forceful thinkers of this time."--The Nation

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction to the Second Edition	xi
Douglas Kellner
Introduction to the First Edition The Paralysis of Criticism: Society Without Opposition	xli
One-Dimensional Society
The New Forms of Control	1	(18)
The Closing of the Political Universe	19	(37)
The Conquest of the Unhappy Consciousness: Repressive Desublimation	56	(28)
The Closing of the Universe of Discourse	84	(39)
One-Dimensional Thought
Negative Thinking: The Defeated Logic of Protest	123	(21)
From Negative to Positive Thinking: Technological Rationality and the Logic of Domination	144	(26)
The Triumph of Positive Thinking: One-Dimensional Philosophy	170	(33)
The Chance of the Alternatives
The Historical Commitment of Philosophy	203	(22)
The Catastrophe of Liberation	225	(22)
Conclusion	247	(12)
Index	259