Marcuse and the One-Dimensional Man: One-dimensional thinking in the State and Institutions

Authors

  • Rogério Lustosa Bastos UFRJ - Rio de Janeiro – RJ

Abstract

This article, based on Marcuse, criticizes the current movement of globalization and its sustenance of a model considered consensual to market values, the one-dimensional man. This, with the intention of being the sole form of thinking, establishes itself not only by determining the concrete and subjective conditions for everyone, but also by reproducing them through the State, notably, through social institutions that, by presenting themselves as part of a hegemonic network tend to reproduce this one dimensionality throughout the
planet. Under times of near absolute consensus in support of these values, the article reflects on possible breaks in this model.

Author Biography

Rogério Lustosa Bastos, UFRJ - Rio de Janeiro – RJ

Pós-Doutor em Psicanálise pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Doutor em Psicologia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). Professor da Escola de Serviço Social da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

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Published

2014-06-03

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2014): Estado e Política Social na América Latina

Section

Open-themed space

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