Heidegger’s protest against reification is itself reified into an irrational doctrine of Being.

Evidence

Under the weight of tradition, which Heidegger wants to shake off, the inexpressible becomes explicit and compact in the word `Being’, while the protest against reification becomes reified, divorced from thinking, and irrational. By treating the inexpressible side of philosophy as his immediate theme, Heidegger dams up philosophy all the way back to a revocation of consciousness. By way of punishment, the well he wants to excavate dries up. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 628

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the chapter’s earlier Adorno material on domination of nature and reification; connects to Adorno’s critique of Heidegger noted in the book so far. — connects to: Heidegger’s anti-modernism masked complicity with capitalist acceleration — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2504; Self-aware rebellion against spectacle is itself absorbed and commodified — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 24; Heideggerian Being is treated as immediacy despite being thoroughly mediated. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 627 (+1 more)
• DEFINE: Gives concrete content to ‘reification’ as a self-defeating fate rather than a bare term.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Heidegger’s anti-modernism masked complicity with capitalist acceleration — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2504; Self-aware rebellion against spectacle is itself absorbed and commodified — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 24; Heideggerian Being is treated as immediacy despite being thoroughly mediated. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 627 (+1 more)