Published: 2023-12-21

The Validity of Marcuse

Andrzej Szahaj Logo ORCID
Section: debates - confrontations - diagnoses
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.14709

Abstract

The main goal of the article is to look at the most important theses of Marcuse’s philosophy in order to identify their actuality or nonactuality. The theses in question are those which say that we are living in the totally administrated world, where one-dimensional man has been created by industrial capitalism, culture has affirmative character as for the status quo, people work too much, technics and technology are important
elements of the politics, the most important economic power are not transparent for the society and the classical subject of political change – working class is not able to cause political change any longer, which is why there is need to seek for a new such subject. I try to defend a stand according to which Marcuse’s theses are still actual and valid if only one takes into account today’s phenomena in economics, politics and social life.

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Szahaj, A. (2023). The Validity of Marcuse. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (47), 185–195. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.14709

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Er(r)go 47 (2/2023)

No. 47 (2023)
Published: 2024-01-25


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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