Husserl’s patronage advanced Heidegger toward Freiburg’s chair

Evidence

In 1924, Husserl helped Heidegger to get a paid job at the University of Marburg, not too far away. He stayed there for four years. In 1928, aged thirty-nine, he returned to Freiburg to take over the chair left vacant when Husserl retired — again with Husserl’s helpful support. … It was a relief to be back: Heidegger was never happy in Marburg, which he called a ‘foggy hole’, but it did give his career its first big push, and while there he also had an intoxicating affair with his student Hannah Arendt. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 187

Categorization

• XREF: The mentor-becomes-descendant-and-then-rivals arc sets up the great break explored later in the book; also foreshadows the Heidegger-Arendt affair treated in later chapters. — connects to: Heidegger’s students secured Habermas a chair before his Habilitation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2385; Husserl informally adopted Heidegger as a surrogate son and heir — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 186; Husserl backed Heidegger’s career hoping to restore ideological loyalty but lost the succession — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 225