2.1 Marcuse's early 'Heideggerian Marxism'.His Marxist scholarship inspired many radical intellectuals and political activists in the 1960s and 1970s, both in the United States and internationally. His best known works are Eros and Civilization (1955) and One-Dimensional Man (1964). In the 1960s and the 1970s he became known as the preeminent theorist of the New Left and the student movements of West Germany, France, and the United States some consider him 'the Father of the New Left'. īetween 19, Marcuse worked in US government service for the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency) where he criticized the ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the book Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (1958). In his written works, he criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet Communism and entertainment culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social control. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research – what later became known as the Frankfurt School. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then at Freiburg, where he received his PhD.

Herbert Marcuse ( / m ɑːr ˈ k uː z ə/ German: J– July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

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