Habermas downgraded Heidegger in print between 1953 and 1959.

Evidence

In his first critical article on Heidegger in 1953, Habermas had still described Being and Time as being the most significant event in philosophy since Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. In 1959 he wrote, more moderately, that Heidegger had hadat least within the academic worldthe greatest influence of any philosopher since Hegel. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 625

Categorization

• XREF: Tracks Habermas’s shifting public judgment of Heidegger, which later undergirds his 1980s confrontation over Heidegger’s Nazism. — connects to: Habermas progressively downgraded Heidegger’s thought between 1953 and 1959 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2498
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Habermas progressively downgraded Heidegger’s thought between 1953 and 1959 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2498

Broader Connections

• Habermas progressively downgraded Heidegger’s thought between 1953 and 1959 #expands (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2498