Marcuse’s Heideggerian past marked him as ideologically unreliable to Institute directors

Evidence

In the eyes of the directors of the Institute, Marcuse was a specialist in philosophical literature and of limited competence. Pollock went so far as to speak of Marcuse’s `subordinate position as assistant and helper’even if only in order to resist Adorno’s demand that Marcuse should be thrown out so that he, Adorno, could take his place. 38 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. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 166

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior highlights on the Early Frankfurt School’s fraught reception of Heidegger’s philosophy, and Adorno’s own crisis framed by Wozzeck. — connects to: Marcuse’s Heideggerian past marked him as needing ideological redemption. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 592; Marcuse’s Heideggerian past kept him in a subordinate, probationary status at the Institute. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 592
• SHARE: The detail that Adorno pushed to have Marcuse fired so he could take the post is exactly the kind of insider gossip one colleague working on Adorno would relish.

Broader Connections

• Marcuse’s Heideggerian past kept him in a subordinate, probationary status at the Institute. #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 592
• Marcuse’s Heideggerian past marked him as needing ideological redemption. #expands (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 592