One-Dimensional Man

One-Dimensional Man "In One-Dimensional Man herbert marcuse has moved on to what is the central problem of our civilization-how to reconcile orginality and spontaneity and all the creative aspects of our human nature with a prevailing drive to rationality that tends to reduce all varieties of temperament and desire to one universal system of thought and behavior. He does not claim to solve this problem, but by presenting the alternatives in clear and critical terms, he makes the choice inevitable to every socially responsible individual. That is to say, he makes us realize that the choice is now between the life and the death of our civilization.

Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man was one of the most important books of the 1960s.1 First published in 1964, it was immediately recognized as a significant critical diagnosis of the present age and was soon taken up by the emergent New Left as a damning indictment of contemporary Western societies, capit­ alist and communist.

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