Heidegger’s theology offered no prospect of rescue or reconciliation

Evidence

The career followed by the philosophy professor to whom Marcuse was making his pilgrimage was apparently the exact opposite of those of Lukács, Bloch, Benjamin and Kracauer. Heidegger’s thinking had been moulded by theology, but his was a theology which lacked any prospect of rescue, reconciliation or salvation. In addition, he was closeted within a safe academic world, and averse to everything political or Marxist. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 393

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The contrast the narrator draws — that Heidegger’s whole theological formation was paradoxically a theology without any prospect of salvation — is a sharp, dense observation about what separates him from the Frankfurt generation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 393
• XREF: connects to: Heidegger’s thought gives no guidance for social practice or scientific interpretation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2499; Heidegger’s authentic-versus-inauthentic distinction left politics to heroic fatalism without causes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 412

Broader Connections

• Heidegger’s thought gives no guidance for social practice or scientific interpretation #complicates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2499
• Heidegger’s authentic-versus-inauthentic distinction left politics to heroic fatalism without causes #corroborates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 412