Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation before the Nazis forced him into exile

Evidence

It was after this that he began to see his plan for a Habilitation as unrealistic, and published his book on Hegel independently. According to Marcuse’s own statement, this came about because in 1932 there was no longer any point in a Jew and a Marxist taking a Habilitation. On the evidence of a letter from Husserl to Riezler, howeveron the basis of which Marcuse was later accepted in the West German restitution procedure as someone who would in the normal course of events have taken his Habilitation and become a professorMarcuse’s Habilitation was in reality, or in addition, blocked by Heidegger. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 424 (#expands, via linked claim)

On the evidence of a letter from Husserl to Riezler, howeveron the basis of which Marcuse was later accepted in the West German restitution procedure as someone who would in the normal course of events have taken his Habilitation and become a professorMarcuse’s Habilitation was in reality, or in addition, blocked by Heidegger. Husserl appealed to Riezler on his behalf, and Riezler appealed to Horkheimer. At first these efforts were in vain. It was only in 1933, after a conversation with Leo Lowenthal, who spoke to Horkheimer on Marcuse’s behalf, that Marcuse joined the Institute of Social Research in exile in Geneva. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 424 (#expands, via linked claim)

His first book, Hegel’s Ontology and the Foundation of a Theory of Historicit Y, appeared in 1932, bearing the marks of his mentor Heidegger, for whom it had been prepared as a Habilitationsschrifi. Before Heidegger could accept Marcuse as an assistant, however. theirrelations became strained; the political differences between the Marxistoriented student and the increasingly right-wing teacher were doubtless part of the cause. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 154 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation while Marcuse believed antisemitism was the bar — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 424; Political differences with Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s academic appointment at Freiburg — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 154; Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation, not merely anti-Semitic university policy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 424 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation, not merely anti-Semitic university policy. #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 424
• Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation while Marcuse believed antisemitism was the bar #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 424
• Political differences with Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s academic appointment at Freiburg #expands (0.88) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 154
• Horkheimer blocked Habermas’s Habilitation, forcing him to publish elsewhere. #corroborates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2383
• Horkheimer blocked Habermas’s Habilitation to drive him out of the Institute #corroborates (0.74) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2359
• Benjamin’s failed Habilitation drove him into freelance criticism rather than academia #corroborates (0.72)