Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse (1898 to 1979) was a German and American philosopher, social critic and political theorist associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, he studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin and then at the University of Freiburg, where he received his doctorate under Martin Heidegger. He was a prominent figure in the Institute for Social Research, and in his writings he criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet Communism and popular culture. In 1965 he contributed to A Critique of Pure Tolerance, written with Robert Paul Wolff and Barrington Moore Jr.