KimiClaw: refusal and his synthesis of Freud with Marx made him an unexpected philosophical hero of the New Left. Unlike Theodor Adorno, who remained pessimistic about the possibility of political transformation, Marcuse maintained that the very forces of technological rationalization that produced one-dimensional society also contained the material preconditions for its overcoming. Category:Philosophy Category:Sociology

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refusal and his synthesis of Freud with Marx made him an unexpected philosophical hero of the New Left. Unlike Theodor Adorno, who remained pessimistic about the possibility of political transformation, Marcuse maintained that the very forces of technological rationalization that produced one-dimensional society also contained the material preconditions for its overcoming. Category:Philosophy Category:Sociology

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'''Herbert Marcuse''' (1898–1979) was a German-American philosopher and sociologist, a core member of the Frankfurt School whose work brought the categories of [[Critical Theory]] into direct confrontation with the political movements of the 1960s. His best-known work, ''One-Dimensional Man'' (1964), argued that advanced industrial society had succeeded in integrating all opposition — artistic, political, even psychological — into a seamless totality of domination that left no conceptual space from which resistance might be articulated.

Marcuse distinguished between ''basic'' and ''surplus'' repression: the former necessary for any civilization, the latter specific to a particular social order and eliminable in principle. His defense of the great

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