Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) was a German philosopher and sociologist and a major representative of Critical Theory. After the First World War, during which he briefly belonged to a soldiers’ council in Berlin, he studied literature and philosophy in Berlin and Freiburg, including under Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. He joined the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research in 1932 and emigrated to the United States via Switzerland in 1933/34. During the Second World War, he worked for U.S. intelligence. After 1945, he taught at several American universities. His best-known works include *Reason and Revolution*, *Eros and Civilization*, and *One-Dimensional Man*, which strongly influenced the student movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Marcuse died in Starnberg in 1979.