One-Dimensional Man, Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Language: English
Pages: 260
ISBN: B001PPXMFY
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One-Dimensional Man, Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society Paperback - 1968 by Herbert Marcuse (Author)
rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression – one might speak of "institutionalized de sublimation.” The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time. It has often been noted that advanced industrial civilization operates with a greater degree of sexual freedom – “operates” in the sense that the latter becomes a market value and a factor of social mores.. Without
of a universally valid order of thought, neutral with respect to material content. Long before technological man and technological nature emerged as the objects of rational control and calculation, the mind was made susceptible to abstract generalisation. Terms which could be organised into a coherent logical system, free from contradiction or with manageable contradiction, were separated from those which could not. Distinction was made between the universal, calculable, “objective” and the
of what they have in mind, they simply refer to the specific perceptions, nations, or dispositions which they happen to have; the mind is a verbalized ghost. Similarly, the will is not a real faculty of the soul, but simply a specific mode of specific dispositions, propensities, and aspirations. Similarly with "consciousness," "self," "freedom" - they are a11 explicable in terms designating particular ways or modes of conduct and behavior. I shall subsequently return to this treatment of
time it will deteriorate and need repair; that its beauty and surface are cheap. its power unnecessary, its size idiotic; and that I will not find a parking place. I come to think of my car as a product of one of the Big Three automobile corporations. The latter determine the appearance of my car and make its beauty as well as its cheapness, its power as well as its shakiness, its working as well as its obsolescence. In a way, I feel cheated. I believe that the car is not what it could be, that
thus far been committed to an unfree existence and would mean a new idea of science, of Reason. If the completion of the technological project involves a break with the prevailing technological rationality, the break in turn depends on the continued existence of the technical base itself. For it is this base which has rendered possible the satisfaction of needs and the reduction of toil – it remains the very base of all forms of human freedom. The qualitative change rather lies in the