Coronavirus times according to Herbert Marcuse

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35319/jcomsoc.2020111237

Keywords:

Technocracy, rationality, hierarchy

Abstract

The following essay aims to explain the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic on the different patterns social, especially those that are closely related to technology. The explanation of this phenomenon comes from an indepth analysis of the most popular works of the sociologist Herbert Marcuse: The One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society and Industrialization (1964) and capitalism in the work of Max Weber (1968).

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Author Biography

Catalina Rivero Crespo, Universidad Católica Boliviana

Estudiante de cuarto semestre de la carrera de Comunicación Social. Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo”. La Paz, Bolivia.

References

Horkheimer, M. (2002). Crítica de la razón instrumental. Trotta.

Horkheimer, M., & Adorno, T. (1969). Dialéctica del iluminismo. Sur.

Marcuse, H. (1964). El hombre unidimensional: Estudios en la ideología de la sociedad industrial avanzada (A. Elorza, Trad.). Beacon Press. (Trabajo original publicado en 1954)

Marcuse, H. (1968). Industrialización y capitalismo en la obra de Max Weber. En J. Massolo (Ed.), La sociedad industrial y el marxismo (pp. 7-37). Quintaria.

Tiempos de coronavirus según Herbert Marcuse

Published

2020-12-04

How to Cite

Rivero Crespo, C. (2020). Coronavirus times according to Herbert Marcuse. Social Communication Journal, 11(11), 113–121. https://doi.org/10.35319/jcomsoc.2020111237

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Section

PART TWO: Original Essays