Herbert Marcuse: Intellectual and Revolutionary

Herbert Marcuse: Intellectual and Revolutionary

This 1996 documentary video, Herbert’s Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise, profiles the life of renowned philosopher and University of California (San Diego) faculty member, Herbert Marcuse, who joined campus uprisings that formed part of a global student movement in the 1960s and 70s. The university, rather than celebrate Marcuse’s important influence and social activism, has “done its best to forget its most famous scholar,” reports Andrew Feenberg.