Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man systematized late capitalist analysis missing from other Critical Theorists

Evidence

In One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Marcuse had attempted to provide what had been missing in the work of the other older Critical Theorists: putting analyses of late capitalist society into a systematic context. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2581

Categorization

  • XREF: Marcuse’s systematic ambition contrasts with Adorno’s aphoristic style, echoing the Horkheimer/Adorno division of labor. — connects to: Theorizing away the concept of totality serves capitalism by hiding it from political challenge — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 713; Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man diagnosed disaster while holding out hope for qualitative change — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2583

Broader Connections