Editing One-Dimensional Man (section)

==Reception== 

The critical theorist [[Douglas Kellner]] asserted that "One-Dimensional Man" stands out as a paramount work of the 1960s and remains one of the most subversive literary contributions of the twentieth century. Despite its pessimism, represented by the citation of the words of [[Walter Benjamin]] at the end of this book that "''Nur um der Hoffnungslosen willen ist uns die Hoffnung gegeben''"<ref>W. Benjamin, Goethes ''Wahlverwandtschaften, Gesammelte Schriften I.1'', Frankfurt am Main 1991, p. 201.</ref> ("It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us"<ref name = Marcuse>{{cite book | last1 = Marcuse | first1 = Herbert | title = One-dimensional Man: Studies in Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society | publisher = Routledge | year = 1991 | location = New York | pages = 261 | isbn = 978-0-415-07429-2}}</ref>), it influenced many in the [[New Left]] as it articulated their growing dissatisfaction with both capitalist societies and Soviet communist societies.<ref name = Kellner />

Marcuse praised [[Paul Mattick#World War II and after|Paul Mattick's critique of the book]].

The philosopher Ronald Aronson wrote in 2014 that ''One-Dimensional Man'' is more prescient than Marcuse could have ever realized and that it is more relevant than ever.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Aronson|first=Ronald|date=17 November 2014|title=Marcuse Today|url=https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/ronald-aronson-herbert-marcuse-one-dimensional-man-today|journal=Boston Review}}</ref>