Being and Time supplied what Marcuse found missing in Marxist theory

Evidence

When he and his closest friend studied Heidegger’s Being and Time, just after it was published, they agreed that it was concerned with precisely what they had missed in Marxist theory (in spite of Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness): the existential element, the way that the book took everyday forms of alienation as its starting-point, and its clarification of the question of authentic human existence. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 391

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader critical theory question of Marxism’s lack of subjectivity/existentialism — a thread central to Frankfurt School formation. — connects to: Marcuse diluted existentialist anthropology into a theory of indirect essence correspondence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 422; Reading the early Marx turned Marcuse from Heideggerian existentialism toward revolutionary theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 18; Horkheimer steered Marcuse from Heideggerian phenomenology toward critical Marxism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 283 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 391

Broader Connections

• Reading the early Marx turned Marcuse from Heideggerian existentialism toward revolutionary theory. #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 18
• Being and Time reverses the tradition by grounding Being in everyday life #complicates (0.78) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 211
• Horkheimer steered Marcuse from Heideggerian phenomenology toward critical Marxism #contradicts (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 283
• Marcuse diluted existentialist anthropology into a theory of indirect essence correspondence #qualifies (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 422
• Being and Time’s publication was a theatrical, near-ceremonial event among Heidegger’s students #expands (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 194