Husserl recognized Being and Time as partly directed against his own philosophy

Evidence

Edmund Husserl did not fail to notice that, despite the words of dedication and praise, Being and Time was partly directed against him. He read it several times to be sure. After his first perusal he took it to Italy’s Lake Como on holiday in the summer of 1929 and worked through it in detail, making incredulous notes in the margins: ‘But that is absurd’. He made frequent use of ‘?’, ‘!’ and even ‘?!’ But when he complained, Heidegger seemed to think his interpretation of the book as an attack on him was ‘Nonsense!’ — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 223

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Husserl came to see Heidegger as a rival to be destroyed philosophically — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 250; Husserl saw himself as a radical leader whose students were not keeping up — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 228

Broader Connections

• Husserl came to see Heidegger as a rival to be destroyed philosophically #corroborates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 250