The 1932 publication of Marx’s Paris Manuscripts pivoted Marcuse from Heidegger to Marx

Evidence

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

Categorization

• XREF: The 1932 MEGA publication of the 1844 Manuscripts is a decisive event for early Frankfurt School Marxism — connects to critiques of orthodox Marxism across the critical theory literature. — connects to: Reading the early Marx turned Marcuse from Heideggerian existentialism toward revolutionary theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 18; Marx’s early manuscripts entered English New Left debate through Paris — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 793; Marcuse’s early project merged Heideggerian phenomenology with Marx against Engels’ naturalism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 274 (+3 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how exactly did Hilferding’s Die Gesellschaft function as a venue, and did the SPD milieu shape Marcuse’s reception of the Manuscripts?

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer steered Marcuse from Heideggerian phenomenology toward critical Marxism #qualifies (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 283
• Marcuse’s early project merged Heideggerian phenomenology with Marx against Engels’ naturalism #qualifies (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 274
• Marx’s early manuscripts entered English New Left debate through Paris #expands (0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 793