Husserl’s phenomenological watchword was repurposed by Heidegger as a metaphysical openness

Evidence

Heidegger was passed unfit for military service, and took his Habilitation degree in 1916 with Rickert, with a dissertation on The Theory of Categories and Meaning in Duns Scotus. He was committed to the medieval concept of speculative grammar', and stated in the conclusion of his thesis that he saw metaphysics as being the true task of philosophy. In 1919 he became a Privatdozent and was appointed as assistant to Rickert's successor, Edmund Husserl. What impressed him in Husserl's book, Ideas on a Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, published in 1913, was the modern concept of transcendental subjectivity’, which attains a more original and universal determination through phenomenology'. Husserl's watchword To the things themselves!’, which aimed to establish philosophy as a pure science and had been intended quite unrebelliously, became for Scheler, and now for Heidegger as well, an encouragement to believe once again in the possibility of an authentic, weighty philosophy and in `phenomenological seeing’ as an openness of the subject towards the metaphysical. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 396

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader story of how German critical theory (Horkheimer, Adorno) inherited and then opposed Heidegger’s phenomenology through the Frankfurt School’s institutional formation. — connects to: Heidegger’s break with Husserl hinged on what each bracketed out — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 220; Heidegger’s life-world analysis paralleled the metaphysical diagnoses of his era — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 405

Broader Connections

• Heidegger’s break with Husserl hinged on what each bracketed out #expands (0.78) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 220
• Heidegger’s life-world analysis paralleled the metaphysical diagnoses of his era #expands (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 405