Men of Ideas Season 1 Episode 3 Marcuse and the Frankfurt School ( Air Date 1978-02-02 ) Genre Documentary, Talk category. Overview "In this program with world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee, the late philosopher and radical political theorist Herbert Marcuse explains how the so-called Frankfurt School reevaluated Marxism when world economic crisis failed to destroy capitalism as predicted by Marx. He also analyzes the philosophical roots of the student rebellions of the sixties.".