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Study On Thought Of Alienation Of Technology By Marcuse

Posted on:2010-02-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y L WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2120360278959972Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Herbert Marcuse think advanced industrial society are one-way degree society, people are one-way degree people. In the political field, the new totalitarian antithesis of social and political integration. The opposed party not only to give up the idea of violence to seize power, the proletariat has also lost its negative and revolutionary; in the field of culture, high culture was rejected by the reality, and the reality is beyond its culture; in the field of economic life field, "blue collar" job team was transfered toward the "white collar" work force, and the number of the unproductive are increasing workers. The living standard of the working class and the capitalists are gradually reduced, the dissatisfied attitude of workers will be blamed with the fate of the denisty; in the language field, and the advanced industrial society has the overall management of the language. Language as a proof of identity and consistency has been used to encourage positive thinking and to prove actions. The degree of the person for a one-way was proved by the rule of assimilation. People were satisfied in the "false needs", and people's "real needs" was suppressed. Because of the popular of positivism, analytic philosophy and other fields, the idea has become the people's one-way idea. The community is a "well-off society," at the same time, which is "sick society." Marcuse's concept of one-dimension is objective, at the same time, which required the rational knowledge.Herbert Marcuse considers the fracture of the value of rationality and rational instrument is the root which science and technology depressed the human nature. Rational instrument is technology rationality. Technology rationality is one-degree thinking. In reality, because of the development of science and technology progress and promotion, idea are of, technological rationality has been dominant. Marcuse's rational concept of technical rationality.Marcuse believes that modern society is no longer a neutral technology. However, he did not object the technology. His thought about alienation of technology didn't show that he is a technology pessimist. In his view, science and technology is ideology. Ideology is a kind of proof to conceal the nature, to provide a legal basis for the rule, so that the real power systems are not analyzed by the concept of system. Marcuse said that the development a new technology cause the qualitative change in society. New technologies are able to provide the correct and historical tecnology for the ration and freedom of the immature state. The liberation of humanity, including the liberation of Eros, and the liberation of ration. Therefore we should examine Marcuse's new technology theory in a dialectical way.
Keywords/Search Tags:Marcuse, Technical rationality, Alienation of technology
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