Heidegger’s life-world analysis paralleled the metaphysical diagnoses of his era

Evidence

Much of what Heidegger described in the first section of the book corresponded to the metaphysical diagnoses of the times which were undertaken in the philosophy of history by Lukács, Bloch, Kracauer and Benjamin. It was an analysis of the life-world (Lebenswelt), to use a concept made familiar by the late Husserl, who had, for his part, also been inspired by Heidegger. Heidegger defended this life-world against theorizing and against the absolutization of the scientific world-picture, but at the same time exposed its inauthenticity. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 405

Categorization

• XREF: Links Heidegger’s Lebenswelt concept with Lukács, Bloch, Kracauer, and Benjamin — the Frankfurt School nexus this book is charting. — connects to: Husserl’s phenomenological watchword was repurposed by Heidegger as a metaphysical openness — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 396; Heidegger saw humanity as the place where Being becomes conscious of itself — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 593; Heidegger’s ontology functioned as a conservative apositivism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2500 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Locates the origin of the Lebenswelt concept in late Husserl.

Broader Connections

• Heidegger saw humanity as the place where Being becomes conscious of itself #expands (0.82) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 593
• Heidegger’s ontology functioned as a conservative apositivism #expands (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2500
• Adorno faulted Heidegger for staying trapped in traditional metaphysics #contradicts (0.75)