One dimensional man

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'^The most subversive book published in the United States this century". LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR
Herbert Marcuse, along with Mao Tse Tung, Che Guevera and Ho Chi Minh, has emerged as the prophet of the student revolutionary movement. His thesis is that in a modern technological society so-called 'free' institutions and 'democratic liberties' are used to limit freedom, repress individuality, disguise exploitation, and limit the scope of human experience. Society is controlled through the manipulation of false needs created by vested interests. The domination of bosses and owners is screened by their transfiguration into bureaucrats and corporations. Critics are eiiectively silenced by channelling their protests through the harmless safety valve of institutionalised democracy. In sum, this creates a new totalitarianism within which the last reservoir of revolutionary energy is "those who are outside the productive process"— coloured minorities, the permanently... Tovább

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SPHERE^^^ LIBRARY
'^The most subversive book published in the United States this century". LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR
Herbert Marcuse, along with Mao Tse Tung, Che Guevera and Ho Chi Minh, has emerged as the prophet of the student revolutionary movement. His thesis is that in a modern technological society so-called 'free' institutions and 'democratic liberties' are used to limit freedom, repress individuality, disguise exploitation, and limit the scope of human experience. Society is controlled through the manipulation of false needs created by vested interests. The domination of bosses and owners is screened by their transfiguration into bureaucrats and corporations. Critics are eiiectively silenced by channelling their protests through the harmless safety valve of institutionalised democracy. In sum, this creates a new totalitarianism within which the last reservoir of revolutionary energy is "those who are outside the productive process"— coloured minorities, the permanently unemployed and, above all, the students.
ONE DIMENSIONAL MAN is not only a critique of modern society : it also proposes alternatives which could change the way we live and think. It is, in essence, both a challenge and a guide for all those who wish to break out oi"the closed technological society". Professor Herbert Marcuse teaches philosophy at the University of California's San Diego campus. He is 70 years old. Vissza