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Book One Dimensional Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herbert Marcuse
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-11
  • ISBN : 113443880X
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book One Dimensional Man written by Herbert Marcuse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an ideological bible for the emergent New Left. As Douglas Kellner notes in his introduction, Marcuse's greatest work was a 'damning indictment of contemporary Western societies, capitalist and communist.' Yet it also expressed the hopes of a radical philosopher that human freedom and happiness could be greatly expanded beyond the regimented thought and behaviour prevalent in established society. For those who held the reigns of power Marcuse's call to arms threatened civilization to its very core. For many others however, it represented a freedom hitherto unimaginable.

Book Dimensional Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Pelham
  • Publisher : Touchstone
  • Release : 1990-09-15
  • ISBN : 9780671703424
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dimensional Man written by David Pelham and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1990-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six feet tall, half skeletal, half muscular, Dimensional Man is a life-size pop-up figure which provides a fascinating introduction to basic anatomy. With five simple actions Dimensional Man quickly and easily becomes an attractive and informative three-dimensional wall chart, providing a vivid and detailed view of the extraordinary inner structure of the human body. Revealing the cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, locomotor and urogenitary systems of the body, the figure comes with an index identifying 304 bones, muscles, organs, arteries and veins. Far more than a useful reference, Dimensional Man is a unique and remarkable wall chart for everyone interested in knowing how we are put together.

Book Multidimensional Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jurgen Ziewe
  • Publisher : Jurgen Ziewe
  • Release : 2008-08
  • ISBN : 1409224252
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Multidimensional Man written by Jurgen Ziewe and published by Jurgen Ziewe. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading a highly demanding professional life Jurgen Ziewe compensated by practicing intensive meditation to gain balance and spiritual inspiration. He soon discovered there was more to life when he was catapulted out of his body into a parallel universe. For nearly forty years he kept a secret diary detailing his excursions, which reveal a fascinating alternate reality that awaits us once we leave our mortal bodies. The author discovered a multidimensional universe, which he could step into in full waking consciousness. He returned each time with breath-taking accounts of a world which forms not only the natural extension but the foundation of our physical universe. Jurgen Ziewe gives vivid and compelling accounts of meeting his deceased relatives, of interviewing the 'dead', and even of accompanying himself in a previous life. He describes with the zest of a travel journalist some of the mind-bending places he has visited, and recalls the excitement of unearthing the magical powers found there.

Book One Dimensional Man 50 Years On

Download or read book One Dimensional Man 50 Years On written by Terry Maley and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-27T00:00:00Z with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man has been called one of the most important books of the post-WWII era. Published in 1964, Marcuse’s work was highly critical of modern industrial capitalism — its exploitation of people and nature, its commodified aesthetics and consumer culture, the military-industrial complex and new forms of social control at the height of the Keynesian era. Contributors to this collection assess the key themes in One Dimensional Man from a diverse range of critical perspectives, including feminist, ecological, Indigenous and anti-capitalist. In light of the current struggles for emancipation from neoliberalism in Canada and across the globe, this critical look at Marcuse’s influential work illustrates its relevance today and introduces his work to a new generation.

Book Many Dimensional Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : James A. Ogilvy
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN : 9780060907259
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Many Dimensional Man written by James A. Ogilvy and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two Dimensional Man

Download or read book Two Dimensional Man written by Abner Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to this original study, first published in 1974, is that Political Man is also Symbolist Man, that man is two-dimensional. The book explores the possibilities of the systematic study of the dialectical interdependence between power relationships and symbolic action in modern, complex society. The discussion focuses on the processes by which interest groups, that cannot organise themselves formally, manipulate different types of symbolic formations to articulate a number of basic organisational functions: distinctiveness, communication, decision-making, authority, ideology and socialisation. The analysis is worked out in terms of specific case studies of different types of groupings, or ‘invisible organisations’ – ethnic, elitist, religious, ritually secret, cousinhood – which go through processes of cultural metamorphosis, shifting from one symbolic strategy to another, in response to changes in their circumstances. In conclusion, the discussion is brought to bear on the study of stratification in large-scale industrial society generally.

Book The Essential Marcuse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herbert Marcuse
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Release : 2007-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780807014332
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The Essential Marcuse written by Herbert Marcuse and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism. His words are as relevant to today's society as they were at the time they were written.

Book One Dimensional Man

Download or read book One Dimensional Man written by Herbert Marcuse and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner, presents Marcuse's best-selling work to another generation of readers in the context of contemporary events.

Book One Dimensional Woman

Download or read book One Dimensional Woman written by Nina Power and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short book is partly an attack on the apparent abdication of any systematic political thought on the part of today's positive, up-beat feminists. It suggests alternative ways of thinking about transformations in work, sexuality and culture that, while seemingly far-fetched in the current ideological climate, may provide more serious material for future feminism.

Book The Hidden Dimension

Download or read book The Hidden Dimension written by Edward Twitchell Hall and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1969 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal.

Book The Anthropology of Power

Download or read book The Anthropology of Power written by Angela Cheater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited collection which examines the theoretical issues surrounding power, and particularly empowerment, which uses ethnographic analysis as its basis. It takes material from the Middle East, Canada, Columbia, Australasia and various parts of Europe and Africa. It looks particularly at the extent to which traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in postcolonial or multicultural settings, and at how power relates to economic development, gender and environmentalism.

Book Man on Three Dimensions

Download or read book Man on Three Dimensions written by Kenneth E. Hagin and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Four Dimensional Human  Ways of Being in the Digital World

Download or read book The Four Dimensional Human Ways of Being in the Digital World written by Laurence Scott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are a four-dimensional human. Each of us exists in three-dimensional, physical space. But, as a constellation of everyday digital phenomena rewires our lives, we are increasingly coaxed from the containment of our predigital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information, and global connection. Our portals to this new world have been wedged open, and the silhouette of a figure is slowly taking shape. But what does it feel like to be four-dimensional? How do digital technologies influence the rhythms of our thoughts, the style and tilt of our consciousness? What new sensitivities and sensibilities are emerging with our exposure to the delights, sorrows, and anxieties of a networked world? And how do we live in public with these recoded private lives? Laurence Scott—hailed as a "New Generation Thinker" by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC—shows how this four-dimensional life is dramatically changing us by redefining our social lives and extending the limits of our presence in the world. Blending tech-philosophy with insights on everything from Seinfeld to the fall of Gaddafi, Scott stands with a rising generation of social critics hoping to understand our new reality. His virtuosic debut is a revelatory and original exploration of life in the digital age.

Book Two Dimensional Man

Download or read book Two Dimensional Man written by Abner Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to this original study, first published in 1974, is that Political Man is also Symbolist Man, that man is two-dimensional. The book explores the possibilities of the systematic study of the dialectical interdependence between power relationships and symbolic action in modern, complex society. The discussion focuses on the processes by which interest groups, that cannot organise themselves formally, manipulate different types of symbolic formations to articulate a number of basic organisational functions: distinctiveness, communication, decision-making, authority, ideology and socialisation. The analysis is worked out in terms of specific case studies of different types of groupings, or ‘invisible organisations’ – ethnic, elitist, religious, ritually secret, cousinhood – which go through processes of cultural metamorphosis, shifting from one symbolic strategy to another, in response to changes in their circumstances. In conclusion, the discussion is brought to bear on the study of stratification in large-scale industrial society generally.

Book Summary of Herbert Marcuse s One Dimensional Man

Download or read book Summary of Herbert Marcuse s One Dimensional Man written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-11T22:59:00Z with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Douglas Kellner’s book One-Dimensional Man is a critical diagnosis of the present age, and it was immediately recognized as such by the New Left. It was written in the 1950s and early 1960s, and it reflects the stifling conformity of the era. #2 Marcuse developed a critical, philosophical perspective from which he could criticize existing forms of thought, behavior, and social organization. He believed that dialectical philosophy could promote critical thinking. #3 Critical thinking derives its beliefs, norms, and values from existing thought and social practices, while uncritical thinking simply accepts them. Critical thought seeks alternative modes of thought and behavior from which it creates a standpoint of critique. #4 Marcuse was extremely eager to work on a book on dialectics with Horkheimer, who felt himself to be too involved in his work as director of the Institute to be able to devote sufficient time and energy to the project. They moved to California, where they had an opportunity to devote themselves full time to philosophical studies.

Book Meditations Through the Rg Veda

    Book Details:
  • Author : Antonio T. de Nicolas
  • Publisher : Weiser Books
  • Release : 1997-08-05
  • ISBN : 9780892540396
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Meditations Through the Rg Veda written by Antonio T. de Nicolas and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 1997-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents original translations and a penetrating analysis of hymns from the Rg Veda, the earliest literary document of the Indian tradition. For many years the Rg Veda has been a source of interest and inspiration to Western readers. Composed in the predawn of recorded history it narrates the struggle of the Aryans as they tried to unify the world around them by sharing a common vision. Here, for the first time, is an interpretation of the Rg Veda that allows the reader to enter the Vedic world to appreciate this great work of literature on its own terms. Dr. de Nicolas shows how the world view expressed in the Vedas relates to the insights of modern physics. The author also probes the language of the Rg Veda, which he describes as the language of existence and non-existence, the language of images and sacrifice, and the language of embodied vision. Meditations through the Rg Veda not only analyzes the Vedic hymns, it also illuminates the meaning of sound itself, as revealed in these great Vedic songs.

Book Art and Liberation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herbert Marcuse
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2007-01-24
  • ISBN : 1134774516
  • Pages : 491 pages

Download or read book Art and Liberation written by Herbert Marcuse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of art in Marcuse’s work has often been neglected, misinterpreted or underplayed. His critics accused him of a religion of art and aesthetics that leads to an escape from politics and society. Yet, as this volume demonstrates, Marcuse analyzes culture and art in the context of how it produces forces of domination and resistance in society, and his writings on culture and art generate the possibility of liberation and radical social transformation. The material in this volume is a rich collection of many of Marcuse’s published and unpublished writings, interviews and talks, including ‘Lyric Poetry after Auschwitz’, reflections on Proust, and Letters on Surrealism; a poem by Samuel Beckett for Marcuse’s eightieth birthday with exchange of letters; and many articles that explore the role of art in society and how it provides possibilities for liberation. This volume will be of interest to those new to Marcuse, generally acknowledged as a major figure in the intellectual and social milieus of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as to the specialist, giving access to a wealth of material from the Marcuse Archive in Frankfurt and his private collection in San Diego, some of it published here in English for the first time. A comprehensive introduction by Douglas Kellner reflects on the genesis, development, and tensions within Marcuse’s aesthetic, while an afterword by Gerhard Schweppenhäuser summarizes their relevance for the contemporary era.