In “Some Social Implications of Modern Technology” Herbert Marcuse examines technology in a broader sense. He defines technology as more than just “the technical apparatus,” which he calls “technics”; for Marcuse technology is “a social process” in which men are inseparably involved (138). The most significant implication of the technological process [...]
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Herbert Marcuse: Some Social Implications of Modern Technology
Posted in Marcuse, reason, self on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Josef Fruchtl : The Struggle of the Self Against Itself: Adorno and Heidegger on Modernity.
Posted in Adorno, critical theory, history, phenomenology, self, subject on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In this paper Fruchtl attempts to investigate the question of reflection on modernity. His main thesis is that to reflect upon modernity is to reflect upon the self. This immediately launches the investigation into the realm of subjectivity. He begins by building a picturing of the current dynamic concerning the subject. He creates a dynamic [...]
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