About the book: 1970 / Herbert Marcuse (German: Herbert Marcuse, July 19, 1898, Berlin - July 29, 1979, Starnberg) - German and American philosopher, sociologist and culturologist, representative of the Frankfurt School. Born into a Jewish family, he was drafted into the German army, took part in the First World War, at the end of which he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1918, he was delegated to the Soldiers' Council, in which he participated in the November Revolution and the socialist uprising of the Spartak League (the future Communist Party of Germany). The collusion of the SPD leadership with the ruling circles and the news of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht forced him to leave the SPD. He continued his education and in 1922 received a doctorate in literature. For some time he worked in a bookshop in Berlin. In 1928 he resumed his studies in philosophy. Heavily influenced by the ideas and personality of Martin Heidegger, he later began to critically evaluate his philosophical concepts and became actively involved in socialist movements. Having experienced the strong influence of Freudianism and Marxism, he began working at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Due to the Nazis coming to power in 1933, almost all members of the institute, including Marcuse, emigrated to the United States. After 1945, he worked in Germany as an American intelligence expert on denazification. During this period, Marcuse became acquainted with the relevant documents of the Third Reich, as well as with Soviet propaganda and ideological literature. Marcuse expressed his opinion on the latter issue in the book “Soviet Marxism”, which contained a detailed description of Soviet Marxism-Leninism and its criticism, both from the point of view from the point of view of classical Marxism and from the point of view of the Frankfurt School. In One Dimensional Man, Marcuse makes the case for the Great Refusal of both capitalism and socialism. The main content of the book “Reason and Revolution” boils down to the question of the possibility of ideological justification for the totalitarian organization of society and the philosophical prerequisites that can facilitate or hinder this. In the book “Critical Theory of Society” Marcuse raises the issue of repressive attitudes towards the individual, both in the “consumer society” and in the “society of victorious socialism”».