Creators of modern philosophy
A series of 15 programmes in which Bryan Magee talks to 15 leading philosophers about Western philosophy today.
3: Marcuse and the Frankfurt School with Herbert Marcuse , Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Universtty of California.
When universities all over the Western world erupted in violence in 1968, the chief ' Guru' of the New Left student movement was HERBERT MARCUSE. In this programme Marcuse tells how this 'came about. His story begins between the two world wars, when the failure of the world economic crisis to lead to the break-up of the Capitalist system caused him and other Marxists to re-evaluate Marxist theory.
Series prepared by BRYAN MAGER Director MARTIN L. BELL
Executive producer JANET HOENIG
A shortened version of this discussion will appear in The Listener dated 9 February.