| After more than 20 years' reform and opening to outside world since 1980s, China has made a great progress in political, economic, military, scientific and technological, cultural and other developments of the country, transforming an agricultural economy into an industrial economy. With people enjoying the fruits of these rapid developments, the country is, inevitably, encountering such problems developed countries had ever met as: What are the problems? How to solve the problems? What is an ideal society in people mind?A book, One Dimensional Man, of Herbert Marcuse, a great thinker of Frankford Therory, can enlighten us in identifying the problems, trying to avoid the problem situation; solving the problems successfully.Herbert Marcuse (1898—1979) was a great thinker of Frankford Theory. He published a masterpiece of critique— One Dimensional Man . The theme of the book is: Modern industrialized society is becoming an extremist society, for it not only stifles oppositions but also the phase of negative, critical and even excessive thinking, as a result, the society is transformed into a mono-phased society, people in it mono-phased. The book consists of a profile, and three parts with 10 chapters. In profile, Marcuse points out essence of unfairness in modern industrialized society, introduces his methodologies, approaches and aims of his critiques. In the first chapter, One Dimensional Man, he analyzes the unfairness of politics, culture and language in an industrialized society. The second chapter of the book — One Dimensional Thoughts, is given to studies of mono-phased tendency in logical, scientific and philosophical developments. The third chapter of the book —options, elaborates the... |