Habermas entered public debate in 1953 by attacking Heidegger’s Nazi past

Evidence

Görtzen, René. Bibliographie der Schriften von Jürgen Habermas 1952-1979'. In Thomas McCarthy, Kritik der Verständigungsverhältnisse. Zur Theorie von Jürgen Habermas, trans. Max Looser, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1980, pp. 523-51. … Görtzen, René. Jürgen Habermas: Eine Bibliographie seiner Schriften und der Sekundärliteratur 1952-1981. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1982. … 1953 Mit Heidegger gegen Heidegger denken. Zur Veröffentlichung von Vorlesungen aus dem Jahre 1935’. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 25 July 1953. … 1954 Das Absolute und die Geschichte. Von der Zwiespältigkeit in Schellings Denken. Doctoral dissertation. Bonn: University of Bonn. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 780

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Habermas’s 1953 FAZ piece is the direct sequel to the reader’s Frankfurt School thread on Heidegger’s unrepentant Nazi-era publication shocking Habermas into political engagement.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior Frankfurt School note on the 1953 Heidegger lecture and Habermas’s break with him. — connects to: Heidegger’s unrepentant 1953 publication of his Nazi-era lecture shocked Habermas into political engagement — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2296; Habermas progressively downgraded Heidegger’s thought between 1953 and 1959 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2498; Heidegger’s uncommented 1935 lecture shattered Habermas’s separation of politics from philosophy
• SEED: An essay angle: ‘Habermas’s first published sentence was a denunciation of his teacher’ — how a philosopher’s career begins with a public reckoning.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Heidegger’s unrepentant 1953 publication of his Nazi-era lecture shocked Habermas into political engagement — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2296; Habermas progressively downgraded Heidegger’s thought between 1953 and 1959 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2498; Heidegger’s uncommented 1935 lecture shattered Habermas’s separation of politics from philosophy

Broader Connections

• Heidegger’s unrepentant 1953 publication of his Nazi-era lecture shocked Habermas into political engagement #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2296