About the Author

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was a philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist. He studied at the University of Berlin and the University of Freiburg, and became a crucial figure in the Frankfurt School of social theory. He left Germany in the 1930s and settled in the United States, where he would spend much of his life and taught at many of the country's greatest schools and universities. He is the author of One-Dimensional Man, Eros and Civilization, and many other books.