One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

"The classic critique of modern industrial society. Marcuse objects to what he saw as pervasive one-dimensional thinking-- the uncritical and conformist acceptance of existing structures, norms, and behaviors. He argues that members of Western societies, both capitalist and communist, must reassert their individuality and personal freedom against the oppression of technologized status quo. The only hope for a freer and happier mode of existence, Marcuse believed, lies in humans' active opposition to the waste, destruction, and exploitation at the heart of advanced industrial society."--Cover.