Marcuse's Thought Of Technology

The fast-developing technology brought us with a great deal of material wealth since the industrial revolution and the technology plays an important act both in the whole society and the human's living.However,the consequent is the great negative effects,such as environmental degradation,Energy depletion,belief absent and human alienation.Therefore,the studying on the technology is on the rise around the world.Marcuse is one of the representative personages of Frankfurt school of thought,whose thought of technology plays an important role in social critique theory of Frankfurt school.In the thesis,base on the research of spring-head of his technology thought,and using the documentary analysis and linking theory with practice,we discussed the kinds of one dimensional phenomenon,such as political,cultural,thinking and human dimension,which have been raised by Marcuse in his magnum opus "One Dimensions Man".The origin and consequence of the dimension phenomenon and the orientation of the technological transformation were also discussed to explore the essence of the technology defined by Marcuse.Marcuse assumed that the essence of the technocracy is political domination.The technology belongs to social criticism and humanism is the embodiment of this criticism.Marcuse developed the new technology thought and he expected to reach the liberation of the entire human by the technological aesthetics.On the other hand,Marcuse absolutely believed the contrary between technology development and social control.It is on the one-sided to ascribe to technology which results in the one-dimension phenomena,which will deny the positive effect of the technology on the human society and individual development.In the thesis,the further analysis on the cause of the partial is discussed.And it is pointed that the technology can serves to the human better and finally realize the social harmony and all-round development of human being by making the technology more humanized,aestheticized and ecological.