Kingston Philosophy Café

At 19:00 Bambos Voutourides will give a talk on the book One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse.

Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

His 1964 book "One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society" offers a wide-ranging critique of both contemporary capitalism and the Communist society of the Soviet Union. It documents the parallel rise of new forms of social repression in both these societies, and the decline of revolutionary potential in the West. He argues that "advanced industrial society" created false needs, which integrated individuals into the existing system of production and consumption via mass media, advertising, industrial management, and contemporary modes of thought. (Wikipedia)