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When I Was One-Dimensional: One-Dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 89, Number 2, Summer 2022
- pp. 397-408
- 10.1353/sor.2022.0027
- Article
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Abstract:
This essay is a memoir exploring how Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man changed the author's life. How can such a text so shake us from our indifference, or our undiscriminating curiosity, as if calling us to follow a different path in life? And how does such a revelation of the written word—even if it is regarded as the gospel truth for a significant period of one's life—subsequently fall apart, to be set aside emphatically, as if shaking off a mistaken set of convictions?