A dupla dimensão da tecnologia em Herbert Marcuse

Abstract

In this work, the aim is to discuss the double dimension of technology in Marcuse 's thinking. In its description, is demonstrated elements of his theory that lead us to a better understanding of his position on a technological rationality., verifying how a dialectic of liberation and domination occurs within the context of technology. It is a theoretical research that supports the works of Herbert Marcuse: Reason and Revolution (1941); Some social implications of modern technology (1941); Eros and Civilization: A philosophical inquiry into freud (1955) and One-dimensional man: studies of the ideology of advanced industrial society (1964) seeks to frame them in the historical period has not been elaborated and published, to provide a socio- giving support to the articulation of our problem. Therefore, guided by a dialectical thinking, throughout his work, Marcuse exposes cleary the oppresive and domineering potential of technologies, but he can also identifies a historical possibility of a new non-repressive reality, which is possible to construct a new sensitive individual. In this way we can infer that the technology that enables the domination and stardazation of the behavior of individuals, in the light of the technological and irrational society, also contributes to the loss of its exploratory and oppressive character, becoming, therefore, rational and constituting itself as an instrument of human development.