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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
work by Marcuse
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critical theory and political philosophy
- In political philosophy: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse
…best-known and most influential work, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (1964), he argued that the modern capitalist “affluent” society oppresses even those who are successful within it while maintaining their complacency through the ersatz satisfactions of consumer culture. By cultivating such shallow forms of experience…
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discussed in biography
- In Herbert Marcuse
…best-known and most influential work, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (1964), Marcuse argued that the modern “affluent” society represses even those who are successful within it, while maintaining their complacency through the ersatz satisfactions of consumer culture. By cultivating such shallow forms of experience and…
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