Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution sought to absolve Hegel from Nazi association.

Evidence

Written in large measure to rescue Hegel from his association in American minds with Nazism - the burden of his argument was that Hegel’s political theory, including his controversial emphasis on the state, was inherently rationalist, whereas the Nazis were irrationalists in the tradition of organicist romanticism - it also served as the first extensive introduction of Critical Theory to an English-speaking audience. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 290

Categorization

• XREF: Also connects to ‘Rescue,’ a book by David Kettler & Colin Loader about the English-speaking reception of critical theory. — connects to: Heidegger’s Nazi affiliation routed Marcuse into the Frankfurt School. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 14; Marcuse’s first Hegel book lacked the critical negation central to his later work — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 278; Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution was pursued partly to ease his departure from the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1092

Broader Connections

• Marcuse’s first Hegel book lacked the critical negation central to his later work #expands (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 278
• Heidegger’s Nazi affiliation routed Marcuse into the Frankfurt School. #expands (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 14