Marcuse’s Heideggerian past kept him in a subordinate, probationary status at the Institute.

Evidence

But above all, because of his Heideggerian past, Marcuse was regarded as someone who would still have to prove himself in the long term and learn the correct theory. Marcuse himself saw things in this light as well. At the end of 1935, when he was rewriting yet again his first philosophical contribution to the ZfS, On the Concept of Essence', he wrote to Horkheimer: I should like to say to you, at the end of my first full year in America, how much I feel myself to be part of a humane and academic community here. I believe I have learnt a lot, and should like to thank you for this.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 592

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution was pursued partly to ease his departure from the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1092; Marcuse’s Heideggerian past marked him as needing ideological redemption. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 592; Horkheimer steered Marcuse from Heideggerian phenomenology toward critical Marxism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 283

Broader Connections

• Marcuse’s Heideggerian past marked him as needing ideological redemption. #expands (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 592
• Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution was pursued partly to ease his departure from the Institute #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1092
• Horkheimer steered Marcuse from Heideggerian phenomenology toward critical Marxism #responds-to (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 283