The author finds the rejection of the welfare state on abstract grounds of freedom "hardly convincing" in a section dedicated to the welfare and warfare states, while the last section of this work, entitled "The Chance of the Alternatives," explores the possibilities of the "Catastrophe of Liberation."
This work's last words are a quotation from Walter Benjamin stating that "It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us," and the author's introduction to the first edition of this work explains that this work will vacillate between two contradictory positions. The philosophical behaviorism of Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind and the banality of J.L. Austin's analysis in Other Minds come under attack in a section of this work concerning the "triumph of positive thinking." An analysis of "hyphenized abridgement" using examples like "brush-browed Teller," and "bull-shouldered... von Braun," is found in a section of this work concerned with the "Language of Total Administration" in the titular type of society. The author finds the rejection of the welfare state on abstract grounds of freedom "hardly convincing" in a section dedicated to the welfare and warfare states, while the last section of this work, entitled "The Chance of the Alternatives," explores the possibilities of the "Catastrophe of Liberation." Concluding with a call to a "Great Refusal," for ten points, identify this study in the "ideology of advanced industrial society," the most famous work of Herbert Marcuse.
This work's last words are a quotation from Walter Benjamin stating that "It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us," and the author's introduction to the first edition of this work explains that this work will vacillate between two contradictory positions.
One-Dimensional Man