A Study On Marcuse's One-Dimensionality Theory

Marcuse critiqued and inherited the theories of Hegel, Weber as well as Lukacs etc. He altered their views to build a new revolutionary rationality-critical rationality. Analyzing the , Marcuse considered it as a universal value measure and standard what is forming with the development of capitalism economy and society. Owing to emphasize the rationality of produce process and means, they overlook the produce aim and the rationality of value, which make process deviate from result and means deviate from aim. Because of the deviation, the society became a one-dimensional society, man became a one-dimensional man.it's same to the politics, thought and culture. Marcuse critiqued it fierily. He thought that the man in this society would lose his individuality, independence power as well as the inner revolution and negativity against the social control and manipulation. They would be " industrial civilization slave" and "one-dimensional man" freely and numbly, succumbing to society polities' need. Politics became one-dimensional without opposition. High-level culture became one-dimensional together with reality. Marcuse raised his salvation theory-"Utopia" progressivism. The paper analyzes and evaluates Marcuse's One- Dimensionality, which give some useful advice for our country's socialism developing, refoming and opening.