Marcuse’s Habilitation

Herbert Marcuse’s academic habilitation (post-doctoral qualification for professorship in the German university system), which was blocked by Martin Heidegger. Marcuse suspected antisemitism was the reason, though some interpretations hold the block was not merely the result of anti-Semitic university policy.

Claims that use this term

• Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation while Marcuse believed antisemitism was the bar
• Heidegger blocked Marcuse’s Habilitation, not merely anti-Semitic university policy.