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The Research On Marcuse's Criticism Theory Of Technical Rationality

Posted on:2017-04-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R J XingFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330485498075Subject:Foreign Marxism
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As an important representative of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse is in an era of science and technology and the rapid development of human production and dramatic lifestyle changes.However,the rapid development of science and technology has produced many negative problems,Marcuse thought on the basis of the predecessors,Build the has rich connotations' technical rational criticism theory.This article is divided into five parts be explained.Marcuse formation the theory of technical rationality alienation is not only developed industrial society historical predicament,the era of crisis closely, and has a profound theoretical basis.The first part of the thesis through Marx's theory of alienation, Horkheimer 's science and technology view, Weber 's instrumental reason and Heidegger 's existentialism theory explained,discussed the theory of the idea origin.At the same time, through the analysis of the reality of the developed industrial society describes its social and historical background.In the second part of the thesis, according to the technology alienation Marcuse pointed out to contemporary society caused by a series of consequences discussed, mainly described in the background of alienation of technology rationality orders to the One Dimensional Man produces and loss of the high-level cultural criticism and negativity. In the new form of the control, people's life has undergone a radical change, but also eliminate the human's negativity and critical dimension.In the developed industrial society, the technological rational is equal to the rational itself, and any criticism to the technology is regarded as anti-rationalism and unreasonable.Marcuse see behind the false prosperity of the developed industrial society, a series of social problems, he hopes to find the roots of technology rationality alienation, in order to reconstruct rationality, and help people to get out of the oppression of the world to achieve freedom and liberation.This part mainly from three aspects of the economic operation mechanism, political operation mechanism and social and cultural spirit of the developed industrial society explained the roots.On the basis of reflecting the technical rationality, Marcuse tried to through to "rebuild" the technology rationality,which makes the whole society become a non-repressed free world.The fourth part of this article mainly through Eros liberation theory, instrumental rationality and purpose rationality unified in the technological rationality theoretical theory and the theory of "great refusal" revolution to discussed.The fifth part mainly discusses the evaluation of Marcuse 's technological rationality criticism theory.This part from two aspects, the first is discussed the rationality of Marcuse 's technological rationality criticism theory; the second aspect tends to point out the unreasonable ingredient.
Keywords/Search Tags:Technical Rationality, Criticism, Instrumental Reason, Alienation, Purpose Rationality, Ideology
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