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One-dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
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.
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paper, 260 pages
Expected publication:
March 28th 2012
by Beacon Press
(first published 1964)
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yadayadayadayadayadayadayada--- As well read the endless debates of the Scholastic Philosophers for all the good Marxist and neo-Marxist theorizing does anyone. Once buy into the notion of Historical Inevitability, whether it be the Inevitable Class Struggle or the Second Coming of Jesus, and human experience is open to endless criticism concerning its conformity--or the lack of it--or the antithesis of it-- to the way things are spozed to go. Instead, gimme Rachel Ray, the Tuscan Sun and bottl...more
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Javier
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A nice addition to Marcuse's Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man presents Marcuse's devastating characterization of advanced capitalist society as totalitarian. As in his previous work, Marcuse here follows in the footsteps of Marx (tied together with Freud, actually) in criticizing the furtherance of repression in societies with highly advanced technologies--he calls for a re-appraisal of this mode of existence (which he calls domination) and a restructuring of 'work' into 'play' (fol...more
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Here's an interesting thought: Every technologically advanced society operates on a de facto ideology stemming from the technology itself, regardless of its particular political system. When television or the Internet replace newspapers, for instance, as the means by which an individual interacts with society, the concomitant replacement of words by images takes on an unforeseen brainwashing quality. This is the odd progression looked at in One-Dimensional Man, and Herbert Marcuse’s investigati...more
يتحدث الكتاب عما يسميه الاستبداد الكلي في المجتمعات الغربية الصناعية، وتذويب جميع مظاهر الاختلاف الطبيعية واحتواءها في سبيل المزيد من الانتاج وخلق النموذج الواحد ، في الأفكار والرؤى والأحلام والسلوك. وتأثيرات النظام الرأس مالي والسياسة وتأثيرها في التقنية والعكس أيضا، والكتاب محمل بأفكار ما قبل سقوط الشيوعية فهو ما يفتأ يقارن بين النظام الشيوعي والنظام الرأسمالي والحلول التي اتخذها هذا النظام وذاك، لذا ثمة أفكار كثيرة تجاوزها الزمن ، لكن هناك فصل عن اللغة في العالم الصناعي عميق ومركز تحدث فيه ع...more
This book remains as important and flawed as ever and is probably MORE significant now than when it was published in 1964. A couple of weeks back, Nick Cohen wrote a salient article in The Observer in which he compared the present political situation with that in the 1930s - the last time that capitalism experienced a crisis of this magnitude (though not compounded to the same extent by the circulation of fictitious capital in the economy). The 1930s gave us a revolutionary crisis, Jarrow marc...more
Fascinating. Marcuse is a clear writer, and the critiques he provides here seem still very apt. If you think all critiques of capitalism are really just secret pleas for some utopian form of socialism, this might be a good book for you. Marcuse discusses the flaws and terrors inherent in certain forms of capitalism and in the Really Existing Socialism he saw around the world. (This book was published in 1964, which makes its diagnosis all the more amazing. And also a little bit depressing.)
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Marcuse was a very prominent figure when I was in high school and on into the seventies. While familiar to pretty much everyone with a penchant for politics, few actually went beyond the various articles by and about him or the occasional interview in the progressive press. My intellectual mentor in high school, Ed Erickson, however, had read One-Dimensional Man and passed on a copy of it with a very strong recommendation.
Not having read much Marx in high school and having read no ...more
Not having read much Marx in high school and having read no ...more
قد وصف ماركوز من خلال (الإنسان ذو البعد الواحد) تلك الامبريالية النفسية التي هيمنت على الداخل الغربي وصفا دقيقا حين قال: إن المجتمع الاميركي هو مجتمع التسامح القامع, أي أن هذه المجتمعات الغربية هي مجتمعات شمولية من دون قهر خارجي ومن دون ضرورة وجود شرطة ومن دون قهر مفروض مرئي فالتكنولوجيا(تصنع) الإنسان -ربما أكثر مما يصنعهما- وتسيطر على حياته وتوجهها باتجاه معين, وذلك الأمر الذي سمح بسيطرة هائلة على حياة البشر, وهذا مرده إلى نمط من العقلانية الغربية التي تلقي ب (العقل الأخلاقي والغائي) بعيدا مستب...more
"A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization." (1)
"...euphoria in unhappiness..." (5)
"The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship." (57)
Happy Consciousness: "the belief that the real is the rational and that the system delivers the goods." (84)
"This style is of an overwhelming concreteness. The 'thing identified with its function' is more real...more
"...euphoria in unhappiness..." (5)
"The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship." (57)
Happy Consciousness: "the belief that the real is the rational and that the system delivers the goods." (84)
"This style is of an overwhelming concreteness. The 'thing identified with its function' is more real...more
مع احترامي للمترجم ومابذله من جهد لكن الترجمة كانت مؤذية فعلاً
أتمنى إعادة ترجمة هذا الكتاب مرة أخرى
ولولا اضطراري لقراءته لبحث متعلق بهذا المفهوم لتركته حتى أتمكن من قراءته بلغته الأصلية إن شاء الله
كتاب جيد جداً .
وساعدني على فهم كثير مما فيه قراءات سابقة وقراءة متزامنة لكتاب " مدرسة فرانكفورت "
أنصح به .
أتمنى إعادة ترجمة هذا الكتاب مرة أخرى
ولولا اضطراري لقراءته لبحث متعلق بهذا المفهوم لتركته حتى أتمكن من قراءته بلغته الأصلية إن شاء الله
كتاب جيد جداً .
وساعدني على فهم كثير مما فيه قراءات سابقة وقراءة متزامنة لكتاب " مدرسة فرانكفورت "
أنصح به .
A book I liked less for what it was about (Marcuse's view of capitalism and the ability for society to control it has always struck me as naive) and more for what it represented-student activism. So many kids in college just do not give a shit about the world they live in. It is depressing. Kids our age used to read books like this and think about what they could do to change the world. Now, for the most part, we are more concerned with twitter, fantasy football, reality tv shows, and Halo. So m...more
Does not the threat of an atomic catastrophe which could wipe out the human race also serve to protect
the very forces which perpetuate this danger? The efforts to prevent such a catastrophe overshadow the
search for its potential causes in contemporary industrial society. These causes remain unidentified,
unexposed, unattacked by the public because they recede before the all too obvious threat from without -
to the West from the East, to the East from the West. Equally obvio...more
the very forces which perpetuate this danger? The efforts to prevent such a catastrophe overshadow the
search for its potential causes in contemporary industrial society. These causes remain unidentified,
unexposed, unattacked by the public because they recede before the all too obvious threat from without -
to the West from the East, to the East from the West. Equally obvio...more
[If linguistic analysis in the tradition of Wittgenstein] contributes to enclosing thought in the circle of the mutilated universe of ordinary discourse, it is at best entirely inconsequential. And, at worst, it is an escape into the non-controversial, the unreal, into that which is only academically controversial.
This is my kind of philosophy.
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To say that this meta-context is the Society (with a capital 'S') is to hypostatize the whole over and above the parts. But this h
السياسة هي الممارسة التي تتطور من خلالها المؤسسات الاجتماعية الأساسية وتتحد و تستمر وتتبدل إنها ممارسة الأفراد مهما تكن الصورة التي هم منضمون عليها ومن هنا كان لامناص من أن نطرح على أنفسنا من جديد هذا السؤال :
كيف يستطيع الأفراد المساسون الذين ينعكس تشويههم حتى في حرياتهم و صبواتهم ؟
كيف يستطيعون أن يتحرروا من أنفسهم ومن سادتهم في آن واحد وما السبيل إلى كسر الحلقة المفرغة ؟ *
إن الجتمع الصناعي المقدم لم يزيف حاجات الإنسان المادية فحسب بل زيف أيضاً حاجاته الفكرية فك...more
كيف يستطيع الأفراد المساسون الذين ينعكس تشويههم حتى في حرياتهم و صبواتهم ؟
كيف يستطيعون أن يتحرروا من أنفسهم ومن سادتهم في آن واحد وما السبيل إلى كسر الحلقة المفرغة ؟ *
إن الجتمع الصناعي المقدم لم يزيف حاجات الإنسان المادية فحسب بل زيف أيضاً حاجاته الفكرية فك...more
This is pretty damned radical for its time (1964). People mock the Frankfurt school these days for reasons I do not understand. One Dimensional Man is Marcuse's best known work, though probably not his best. The question he tries to answer is rather straight forward: What has late industrial society done to us and how has it shaped our state of mind? The problem with Marcuse (as with other Marxists, I suppose) is that while criticizing industrialization, he still holds out much hope in tech...more
It was a bit frightning in 1960's to read such a text, sometimes unbelievable, but now, 4 decades later, when we're abserving "one dimensional man" every where, even in mirror in our private flat, it doesn't seem very scary!
یکی از اولین و در عین حال جنجال برانگیزترین نقدهایی که به جامعه ی سرمایه داری پیشرفته، پس از جنگ دوم نگاشته شده است. مارکوزه که یک آلمانی مهاجر در آمریکا بود، نقدها و نظریه هایش در مورد جامعه ی سرمایه داری و سوسیالیسم، مشهور است و در دهه های پس از جنگ، ک...more
یکی از اولین و در عین حال جنجال برانگیزترین نقدهایی که به جامعه ی سرمایه داری پیشرفته، پس از جنگ دوم نگاشته شده است. مارکوزه که یک آلمانی مهاجر در آمریکا بود، نقدها و نظریه هایش در مورد جامعه ی سرمایه داری و سوسیالیسم، مشهور است و در دهه های پس از جنگ، ک...more
It's a classic, and it's pretty enjoyable. Even at the various points where I disagreed with Marcuse, I could easily see where he was coming from. And, unlike Eros and Civilization, there's no ham-handed attempt to reconcile highly disparate realms of thought and synthesize them into a cohesive whole. And his arguments seem vastly more reasonable. I would like a more precise, less "high theory" methodology, but by and large I could see why he chose the approach he did. False consc...more
كتاب فلسفي يحمل بعدا سياسيا واجتماعيا وثقافيا وجاء في فترة الستينات اثناء الموجات الفكرية التي اريد لها ان تعطي الحرية للانسان...
يعتبر الفيلسوف الالماني الامريكي ماركوز الاب الروحي للثورة الطلابية التي اجتاحت العالم في عام 1968 بسبب افكاره وتحليلاته الداعية الى تحرير المجتمعات من اسر الاستهلاك والخضوع للماديات والانشغال بأمور التي تسلب انسانية الانسان
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الكتاب قيم وبديع في افكاره ويستحق الاقتناء والقراءة والتأمل
يعتبر الفيلسوف الالماني الامريكي ماركوز الاب الروحي للثورة الطلابية التي اجتاحت العالم في عام 1968 بسبب افكاره وتحليلاته الداعية الى تحرير المجتمعات من اسر الاستهلاك والخضوع للماديات والانشغال بأمور التي تسلب انسانية الانسان
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الكتاب قيم وبديع في افكاره ويستحق الاقتناء والقراءة والتأمل
Read 'One-Dimensional Man' in January 1969. Along with C. Wright Mills, Marcuse was a very important writer for me as a student. Reading Marcuse encouraged me to read Husserl, Freud, Marx, Hegel, Kant as well as the Frankfurt School, Merleau-Ponty, and Andre Gorz. Important book for the New Left, ODM is still work the read.
written many decades ago, contains scary predictions about our society, many of which have increasingly been coming true. examines consumer capitalism that was developing in the post-war era, and the types of changes it produced in our lives. we are becoming increasingly "one-dimensional"
And again - some stuff to think over. Marcuse taks about enslavement of our affluent society by the un-terrorist economic coordination. Market economy creates new, false needs for mass. It manages us. So, in its frames we are intended to be slaves. The author calls us to reject.
Whew...Marcuse. Very difficult to read, but once you acclimate, he offers some very interesting insights. I have to question if those little gems of thought are worth the time and effort. I'm still on the fence.
I was fortunate enough to read this with a group of students from a philosophy class. We spent a lot of time discussing ideas from the book and mulling over Marcuse's points. Not a light read, but an important one.
Classic analysis of the perils of capitalism and technology. Marcuse offers great insight into what we give up in industrial and post-industrial society. This book is a painful illustration of alienation.
The ideas aren't ground-breaking anymore, but this is still a great foundational read. Best quote: "All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude." p7
Despite Marcuse's lasting influence on modern philosophy, this is quite possibly the most incomprehensible and poorly written book that I have ever read.
This is the other book that affected me deeply and that I can actually remember from my undergraduate education.
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Herbert Marcuse (1991)
some great insights into a totalizing industrial society circa 64, but still has moments of great relevance.
great book. Hard to understand. I think I have to read it again.
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German-Jewish philosopher, political theorist and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School. Celebrated as the "Father of the New Left", his best known works are Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man and The Aesthetic Dimension. Marcuse was a major intellectual influence on the New Left and student movements of the 1960s.
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“If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.”
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“By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.”
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