Heidegger’s thought gives no guidance for social practice or scientific interpretation

Evidence

Perhaps Heidegger’s thought may be characterized indirectly by what it does not achieve: it understands itself just as little in relationship to social practice as it does in relation to the interpretation of the results of the sciences. As to the latter, it demonstrates the metaphysical limitations of their foundations and abandons them, along with technology' in general, to the mistake’ … For the shepherds dwell outside the wasteland of the devastated earth. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2499

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader Habermas-Heidegger debate on science and technology as principal productive forces, and to critical theory’s project of reuniting bisected rationality. — connects to: Heidegger’s theology offered no prospect of rescue or reconciliation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 393