Herbert Marcuse
1898 – 1979 German-American philosopher, political theorist
Frankfurt School philosopher whose critique of consumer society made him a guide to the 1960s New Left.
- Religion
- Of Jewish background; a secular Marxist thinker.
- Affiliations
- The Frankfurt School; later US universities including Brandeis and UC San Diego.
Herbert Marcuse fused Marx and Freud in Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man, arguing that affluent consumer society smothers dissent and genuine freedom. His writing made him an intellectual figure for the student movements of the 1960s, the documented link between the Frankfurt School and radical politics that the cultural Marxism conspiracy theory later exaggerated into a master-plot.
In the timeline
- 1955 Marcuse's Eros and Civilization mentioned
- 1964 Marcuse becomes the father of the New Left mentioned