by Herbert Marcuse · Routledge · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780415289771
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In 'One-Dimensional Man', Herbert Marcuse offers a critical analysis of advanced industrial society, exploring how it creates a system of thought and behavior that suppresses dissent and individuality. Marcuse argues that technology and consumerism are used to integrate individuals into a totalitarian control system, where needs and aspirations are manipulated to maintain the status quo. This book, influential in the New Left, invites reflection on freedom, oppression, and the possibilities of emancipation in an increasingly homogenized world.
Herbert Marcuse was a German and American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin and then at the University of Freiburg, where he received his PhD under the supervision of Martin Heidegger. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research, which later became known as the Frankfurt School. In his written works, he criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet Communism, and popular culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social control.
