Marcuse initially read Heidegger as transcending bourgeois philosophy from within

Evidence

It was when he read the 1844 Manuscripts' of the young Marx, however, that Marx became truly significant to Marcuse for the first time, even more significant than Heidegger or Dilthey. The young Marx, in Marcuse's eyes, was implementing concrete philosophy and demonstrating that capitalism was not merely an economic or political crisis but a catastrophe for the human essence. What was required was therefore not just economic or political reform, but a total revolution. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 18</cite> (#complicates`, via linked claim)

To the extent that Marcuse was unfaithful to Heidegger, it was only because he discovered other philosophers whose tremendous concretion' outdid Heidegger's: Dilthey and Hegel. But all of them were overshadowed for Marcuse by Marx when he discovered the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts’ of 1844, which were published for the first time in 1932 as part of the Marx-Engels Complete Works (MEGA). … In his essay, New Sources for the Basis of Historical Materialism', published in 1932 in the journal Die Gesellschaft (Society), edited by Rudolf Hilferding, Marcuse offered one of the pioneering interpretations of the Paris Manuscripts. He saw in them a laying of the philosophical foundations for economics in the sense of a theory of revolution’i.e. Marx’s ontology, as we might call it by analogy with his book on Hegel. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 419 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marcuse criticized Heidegger’s existentialism for ignoring concrete historical conditions; Reading the young Marx converted Marcuse from Heidegger toward total revolution; Reading the early Marx turned Marcuse from Heideggerian existentialism toward revolutionary theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 18 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Reading the young Marx converted Marcuse from Heidegger toward total revolution #complicates (0.85)
• Reading the early Marx turned Marcuse from Heideggerian existentialism toward revolutionary theory. #complicates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 18
• The 1932 publication of Marx’s Paris Manuscripts pivoted Marcuse from Heidegger to Marx #complicates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 419
• Horkheimer steered Marcuse from Heideggerian phenomenology toward critical Marxism #complicates (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 283
• Marcuse’s unsubmitted habilitation read Hegel as anticipating Heidegger and Dilthey #exemplifies (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 276
• Marcuse argued bourgeois notions of freedom actually sanctioned existing authority #expands (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 424