The End of Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse: An Exposition and a Polemic, by Alasdair Maclntyre. New York: Viking Press. 114 pp. $1.65.

Herbert Marcuse compels attention because he is, or is said to be, one of the more influential social philosophers of our time. Yet every serious critic I have read has concluded that his doctrines are, in almost all essentials, wrong. It would seem, then, that there is no necessary relationship between truth and influence, which, if we are to judge by history, is all to...