Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was born and educated in Berlin, before leaving Nazi Germany in 1934 for refuge in the United States. He taught at Columbia University and then held appointments at Harvard, Brandeis and the University of California San Diego. One of the leading radical theorists of the twentieth century he was hailed as the 'Guru of the New Left' and philosophical talisman of the 1960s counterculture movement. His books include Reason and Revolution and One-Dimensional Man, also published in Routledge Classics.

• Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Douglas Kellner Preface Introduction Part 1: Under the Rule of the Reality Principle 1. The Hidden Trend in Psychoanalysis 2. The Origin of the Repressed Individual (Ontogenesis) 3. The Origin of Repressive Civilization (Phylogenesis) 4. The Dialectic of Civilization 5. Philosophical Interlude Part 2: Beyond the Reality Principle 6. The Historical Limits of the Established Reality Principle 7. Phantasy and Utopia 8. The Images of Orpheus and Narcissus 9. The Aesthetic Dimension 10. The Transformation of Sexuality into Eros 11. Eros and Thanatos Epilogue: Critique of Neo-Freudian Revisionism. Index