Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse (; German: [maʁˈkuːzə]; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then at Freiburg, where he received his PhD. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research – what later became known as the Frankfurt School. He was married to Sophie Wertheim (1924–1951), Inge Neumann (1955–1973), and Erica Sherover (1976–1979). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Marcuse has received more than 1,814,688 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Herbert Marcuse is the 152nd most popular philosopher (down from 130th in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Germany (down from 170th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Philosopher.

Herbert Marcuse is most famous for his theory of "repressive tolerance." Marcuse argues that the world is divided into two types of people: the "repressors" and the "repressed." The repressors are those who have power and privilege in society, and they use their power to keep the repressed in their place. Marcuse argues that the repressed should not be tolerant of the repression of the repressors, but rather should actively resist it.