One-Dimensional Man

Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man (1964) is a critical theory work that systematizes analysis of late capitalist society, diagnosing the ways in which technological rationality and consumer culture flatten critical thought and reduce humans to one-dimensional beings, while still maintaining the possibility of qualitative change.

Claims that use this term

• Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man systematized late capitalist analysis missing from other Critical Theorists
• Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man diagnosed disaster while holding out hope for qualitative change