Marcuse rejected total mystical fusion, retaining Hegel’s subject-object tension.

Evidence

Marcuse refused to accept the total breakdown of differentiations of all sorts championed by Brown. “The unity of subject and object is a hallmark of absolute idealism; however, even Hegel retained the tension between the two, the distinction. Brown goes beyond the Absolute Idea: ‘Fusion, mystical, participation”’ (Negations, p. 138). — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1199

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marcuse’s first Hegel book lacked the critical negation central to his later work — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 278; Adorno and Horkheimer rejected immediacy and Hegel’s identity of subject and object. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 258; The Frankfurt School kept Hegel’s memory of the past but rejected his transcendental idealism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 805 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno and Horkheimer rejected immediacy and Hegel’s identity of subject and object. #corroborates (0.82) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 258
• The Frankfurt School kept Hegel’s memory of the past but rejected his transcendental idealism #corroborates (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 805