Reason and Revolution

Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory
Cover of the first edition
AuthorHerbert Marcuse
LanguageEnglish
SubjectsGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Karl Marx
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date
1941
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages431 (1970 Beacon Press edition)
ISBN0-8070-1557-1

Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory (1941; second edition 1954) is a book by the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, in which the author discusses the social theories of the philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx. Marcuse reinterprets Hegel, with the aim of demonstrating that Hegel's basic concepts are hostile to the tendencies that led to fascism.

The book has received praise as an important discussion of Hegel and Marx.