| Marcuse was a thinker with an overwhelming sense of reality and historical responsibility, he devoted himself to the research of human freedom and liberation issues through all his life.Marcuse combined Western philosophical thought and Marxism together, and argued that the rationality which originated in ancient Greece and Roman had experience a gradual alienation in the course of development, and evolved into a totalitarian technical rationality in contemporary advanced industrial society. Under the governing of such a rational rule, science and technology to replaced the traditional domination of political violence and became a more secretive, new forms of deceptive control; the fields of politics, life consumption, cultural and ideological had been integrated, and this integration of the whole society has become sick one-dimensional society; People who live in it will inevitably become a One-Dimensional Man alienation, and loss freedom. In order to build an ideal society of freedom, and achieve the full realization of human freedom and liberation, Marcuse proposed kind of historical alternative, by rejecting all the "total revolution" of existing society; Art Revolution; Foster new and humane sensibility new technology. Marcuse exposed a variety of alienation of contemporary developed industrial society comprehensively and deeply, to build an ideal society of the future vision of freedom, which provides a new perspective for us to explore the freedom and liberation of the people. However, he separated himself from the concrete practice of history during his exploration of the freedom and the nature of human problems, and all of this predestinates his fail in finding a correct path to the realization of human freedom and liberation. The research of human nature and human freedom and liberation must be established on the basis of practice, and only in practice people can grab, confirm and in possess the essence of the person, and then achieve human freedom and liberation. |
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