Heidegger’s existentialism jettisoned concrete social analysis for heroic fatalism

Evidence

The message to the reader was indistinct. If readers wanted to belong to those who exist authentically, the present would have to appear to them as inauthentic, alienated, dominated by the they' which had to be abolished in favour of the possibility of a constitution of Dasein which had not been perceived in the past, although it had unmistakably existed. But, since the they’ was seen as an existentiale', how could a more authentic constitution of Dasein than the existing one be possible? And, if the most authentic possibility was an acceptance without illusions of the thrownness of one's own there’ (Da), how could an abolition of the they' (which is a part of that) bring an increase in authenticity? What remained was a muted protest against existing conditions, which did not describe the causes of those conditions, and whose chief characteristic was an emotional sense of heroic fatalism. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 412</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

All this implies that this nation, as a historical nation, must move itself and thereby the history of the West beyond the centre of their future <happening’ and into the primordial realm of the powers of being. If the great decision regarding Europe is not to bring annihilation, that decision must be made in terms of new spiritual energies unfolding historically from out of the centre. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1307 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

That Sartre should have come to his reformulation not through any initial stimulus from Marx but rather through Heidegger; that it should have been his own poetic sensitivity for the double valences of objects and of feelings about objects that provided him with the intellectual instruments with which to perform such a translation—such an eventuality is not at all surprising, particularly when we consider that Heidegger’s perception itself corresponds to the commodity-structure of modern society and is a direct reflection of it. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 582 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Heidegger’s authentic-versus-inauthentic distinction left politics to heroic fatalism without causes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 412; Heidegger’s phenomenology reflects the commodity-structure of modern society — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 582; Heidegger framed national destiny as existential response to modernity’s crisis — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1307

Broader Connections

• Heidegger’s authentic-versus-inauthentic distinction left politics to heroic fatalism without causes #corroborates (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 412
• Heidegger framed national destiny as existential response to modernity’s crisis #exemplifies (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1307
• Heidegger’s phenomenology reflects the commodity-structure of modern society #qualifies (0.74) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 582