Political differences with Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s academic appointment at Freiburg

Evidence

His first book, Hegel’s Ontology and the Foundation of a Theory of Historicit Y, appeared in 1932, bearing the marks of his mentor Heidegger, for whom it had been prepared as a Habilitationsschrifi. Before Heidegger could accept Marcuse as an assistant, however. theirrelations became strained; the political differences between the Marxistoriented student and the increasingly right-wing teacher were doubtless part of the cause. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 154

Categorization

• XREF: Marcuse’s break with Heidegger underlines the political stakes in phenomenology’s development — connects to later questions about Heidegger’s Nazism and to the Institute’s dialectical-anti-Heideggerian stance. — connects to: Heidegger’s Nazi affiliation routed Marcuse into the Frankfurt School. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 14; Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation while Marcuse believed antisemitism was the bar — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 424; Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation, not merely anti-Semitic university policy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 424 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Heidegger’s Nazi affiliation routed Marcuse into the Frankfurt School. #expands (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 14