Philosophers’ later intellectual turns are often political disengagements from earlier commitments

Evidence

Can one nonetheless follow one of the classic scenarios of Ideologiekritik and argue that the evolution of a whole complex later line of thought was in some way determined by an initial trauma that it seeks to undo? … This therapeutic language can, of course, be replaced by a more tactical one, as in Bourdieu’s magisterial discussion of the way in which Heidegger’s famous Kehre (the turn of his existentialism toward matters of being) constitutes a calculated rhetorical disengagement from the earlier political affirmation of the Nazi “revolution” but (in that, unlike Blanchot) DeMan had no such sympathies to begin with. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 566

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Ideologiekritik and Bourdieu’s reading of Heidegger — also to the reader’s broader interest in how intellectual positions encode political stances. — connects to: Neither philosopher wrote on self-abandon to the other between 1949 and 1974 — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 145; Hume’s skeptical critiques fought ideology; modern successors ratify established thought — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 649; The MPS nearly collapsed over a split between political action and long-term intellectual goals — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1359 (+1 more)