Welcome to Overthink.
The podcast where your two favorite philosophers put the work of other philosophers in contact with everyday life.
I'm Ellie Anderson.
And I'm David Penya Guzman.
And David, today we are doing our second of this new form of episode we recently have started.
integrating into our regular feed, which is called a closer look,
where we focus on one particular text for the entirety of an episode.
As our longtime listeners know,
usually our episodes are topics based and we pepper in discussions of a few different texts at minimum.
And we have recently started with our new series, Closer Look,
to have one of every four episodes be this new format.
So we talked about Foucault last time.
Now we're going to be talking about the philosopher Herbert Marcuse and his text One Dimensional Man.
Yeah, this is a great little text.
And for those of you who haven't read it, it was hugely influential when it came out in the 1960s.
Marcuse is a figure who is associated with the student movement in the 1960s with the new left in the United States.
And Marcuse is a member of the Frankfurt School,
which is a group of Jewish thinkers from Germany who were writing in the early to middle of the 20th century,
trying to understand how capitalism has changed
since the time of Marx and what possibilities for freedom and liberation might still be on the table for contemporary subjects.