Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation while Marcuse believed antisemitism was the bar

Evidence

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

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the biographical path into the Institute relevant to the Frankfurt School’s institutional history. — connects to: Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation, not merely anti-Semitic university policy. — 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; Horkheimer steered Marcuse from Heideggerian phenomenology toward critical Marxism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 283 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation, not merely anti-Semitic university policy. #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 424
• Political differences with Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s academic appointment at Freiburg #qualifies (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 154
• Horkheimer steered Marcuse from Heideggerian phenomenology toward critical Marxism #expands (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 283
• Heidegger’s Nazi affiliation routed Marcuse into the Frankfurt School. #expands (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 14