One-Dimensional Man

这是一本读起来让人「心痛」的书——读者反复卡在法兰克福学派的艰涩里，rush read一遍仍「没全懂」，却仍愿意为其中的判断买单。它真正的锋利之处，不在于描绘一个显而易见的压迫者，而在于揭示：当物质丰裕、技术合理、需要被制造出来之时，自由并未消失，反而成了最强的统治工具。书中那句「自由选择主人并未使主人和奴隶消失」，正是全书最刺人的判断。它逼问读者：当你为小轿车、厨房设备而活时，那究竟是你的需要，还是制度替你安插的需要？本书的独特价值，正在于它拒绝给出廉价的反抗方案，而是逼你直面一个两难——既批判单向度现实，又拒绝把希望轻易托付给任何现成制度。它适合那些不愿停留在象牙塔、又拒绝被商品逻辑消化的读者。

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was born in Berlin and educated at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. He fled Germany in 1933 and arrived in the United States in 1934. Marcuse taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, and the University of California, San Diego, where he met Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss as graduate students. He is the author of numerous books, including One-Dimensional Man and Eros and Civilization.