TY - BOOK AU - Marcuse,Herbert TI - One-dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society SN - 9780807014172 U1 - 301 PY - 1991/// CY - Boston PB - Beacon Press KW - Civilization, Modern KW - 20th century N1 - Includes index; Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Second Edition by Douglas Kellner -- Introduction to the First Edition The Paralysis of Criticism: Society without Opposition -- Pt. 1. One-Dimensional Society -- Ch. 1. The New Forms of Control -- Ch. 2. The Closing of the Political Universe -- Ch. 3. The Conquest of the Unhappy Consciousness: Repressive Desublimation -- Ch. 4. The Closing of the Universe of Discourse -- Pt. 2. One-Dimensional Thought -- Ch. 5 Negative thinking: The Defeated Logic Protest -- Ch. 6. From Negative to Positive Thinking: Technological Rationality and the Logic of Domination -- Ch. 7. The Triumph of Positive Thinking: One-Dimensional Philosophy -- Pt. 3. The Chance of the Alternatives -- Ch. 8. The Historical Commitment of Philosophy -- Ch. 9. The Catastrophe of Liberation -- Ch. 10. Conclusion -- Index N2 - 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. In One-Dimensional Man, Marcuse sharply objects to what he saw as pervasive one-dimensional thinking - the uncritical and conformist acceptance of existing structures, norms, and behaviors. He argues that members of Western societies, both capitalist and communist, must reassert their individuality and personal freedom against the oppression of the technologized status quo. The only hope for a freer and happier mode of existence, Marcuse believed, lies in humans' active opposition to the waste, destruction, and exploitation at the heart of advanced industrial society. In our contemporary world dominated by rampant militarism and widespread repression, Marcuse’s searing indictment of Western society remains as chillingly relevant today as it was at its first writing ER -