HERBERT MARCUSE

• Herbert Marcuse

• Born in Berlin,
Germany; July 19,
1898

• Died in Starnberg,
Germany; July 29,
1979
• American political
philosopher and a
prominent member of the
Frankfurt School of critical
social analysis
• Studied at the University of
Freiburg
• “Father of the New Left“
What is the New Left movement?
- a broad political movement
mainly in the 1960s and 1970s
consisting of activist in the Western
world who campaigned for a broad
range of social issues such as civil and
political rights, feminism, gay rights,
abortion rights, gender roles, and drug
policy reforms.
What did the New Left movement
accomplished?

-
One Dimensional Man:
Studies in the Ideology of
Advanced and
Industrial Society
 - published in 1964
- it is a militant work that criticizes the modern
become of societies in which capitalism and liberal
democracy are the major features
- democracy are in his authoritarian regime that do
no say their name.
 He consider bureaucracy that seems to be in Marxist countries as
oppositional to freedom as those in the west
 He strongly criticizes consumerism
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