Marcuse's Critical Theory of Technical Rationality

As a representative of the Frankfurt School, Marcuse has repeatedly discussed relationship between technology and freedom. He attributes human alienation to fact that technological rationality become covered ideology in developed industrial society, thus making people lose negativity, transcendence criticism, then 'one-dimensional '. This paper takes Marcuse's "comfortable non-freedom" as starting point, discusses critical theory technical from three aspects: loss freedom, paralysis freedom return It further analyzes how reshapes subject achieves social liberation perspective aesthetics art.