Heidegger’s lectures moved young philosophers including Horkheimer before he published anything

Evidence

Heidegger’s lectures and seminars soon gave him the reputation of being an outstanding philosopher. Nor did this reputation suffer from the fact that he did not publish anything for more than a decade after his Habilitation thesis. To many of those who attended his lecturesHorkheimer among themhe seemed to be living evidence of the fact that philosophy could mean something for life, something of importance to the individual. Bloch and Benjamin affected Adorno in a similar way. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 397

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• XREF: Directly feeds the Frankfurt School institutional history — Horkheimer’s early intellectual formation prior to founding the Institute. — connects to: Heidegger’s reputation thrived on lectures despite a decade of non-publication; Heidegger’s students secured Habermas a chair before his Habilitation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2385; Heidegger’s existential seriousness swayed young Horkheimer against formal philosophy