Marcuse’stechnology dominant ideology
Abstract
Science and technology in promoting economic development, cultural prosperity and social
progress at the same time, with the development of technical rationality and value rationality and
technology rationality split, with the further expansion of technical reason, rational alienation in
the developed industrial society of rule of tools, the rationality of the technology into the
rationality of the rule. Herbert Marcuse,( Herbert Marcuse, 1898-1979) as the main representative
figure of Frankfurt school, Marcuse in critically inherited Marx in the economic and philosophical
manuscripts of 1844 ,and on the basis of heideggers thought of existentialism, technical
rationality was regarded as a kind of positive way of thinking.and the infiltrated every aspect of
society, society become one-mentional society, it suppresses human transcendence, disrupted
critical, dispelling the negative, the essence of human alienation, became a slave to technology,
into the one person. Marcuse aware of this, he from three levels namely natural beauty reduction,
eros liberation people level, social level art revolution from technical control is put forward, so as
to realize mans freedom and liberation of the society. Marcuses technology ruling ideas for us to
solve the social problem has important significance. However, Marcuse technocracy a fatal flaw is
that he thinks that the working class is no longer revolutionary, it will be the main body of
revolution to the intellectuals, the unemployed and homeless, has the strong utopian c
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