Marcuse’s unsubmitted habilitation read Hegel as anticipating Heidegger and Dilthey

Evidence

This was demonstrated even more clearly in what Marcuse had intended as his Habilitationsschrift, Hegel’s Ontology and the Foundation of a Theory of Historicity. … Here Marcuse accepted the identity of subject and object that was at the center of Hegel’s thinking. Being, he interpreted Hegel as saying, is a negative unity, a oneness that persists through all movement and separation. Thus, history is the arena in which being reveals itself. To Marcuse, Hegel’s view of history was an anticipation of Heidegger’s Geschichtlichkeit and Dilthey’s Leben. In fact, the second half of the study attempted to read Leben back into Hegel as the fundamental ontological category of his early writings, including the Phenomenology of the Spirit and the Logic. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 276

Categorization

• XREF: Directly contrasts with Marcuse’s later Reason and Revolution, which is discussed in a later chapter of this same book. — connects to: Marcuse’s early project merged Heideggerian phenomenology with Marx against Engels’ naturalism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 274; Marcuse’s early work rested on Dilthey’s meaning-centered, not causal, concept of history — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 275; Lukács and Heidegger were Marcuse’s two greatest influences — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 387 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Marcuse’s early project merged Heideggerian phenomenology with Marx against Engels’ naturalism #expands (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 274
• Marcuse’s early work rested on Dilthey’s meaning-centered, not causal, concept of history #expands (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 275