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Marcuse published in 1932 an enthusiastic review of the book (New Sources on the Foundation of Historical Materialism, Marcuse 1932b), in which he argued that these manuscripts’ publication ‘must become a crucial event in the history of Marxist studies’ (Marcuse 1932b, 86).\n\nThe significance of Marcuse’s rejection of Heidegger’s philosophy also becomes evident in a review of ‘German Philosophy, 1871–1933’ that he wrote in 1934. In a section about Heidegger’s work, he characterises this philosopher’s work as racist:\n\nHeidegger’s philosophy is weeded to the idea of an authentic existence that is realized through a firm willingness to die for one’s own possibilities. It is here that Heidegger’s existential analytic is transformed into a politics of heroic, racist realism. […] The characteristics of authentic existence – the resoluteness toward death, the decision, the risking of life and the acceptance of destiny – are severed from all relations to the real misery and the real happiness of mankind and from all relations to the reasonable ends of humanity. In this abstract form, these characteristics become the fundamental categories of the racist worldview (Marcuse 2005, 160–161).\n\nMarx’s early philosophical writings remained a major influence on Marcuse’s works, whereas he did not further engage with Heidegger’s theory after Hitler’s rise to power.\n\nIn August 1947, Marcuse wrote a letter to Heidegger, in which he said:\n\nYou never publicly denounced any of the actions or ideologies of the regime. Because of these circumstances you are still today identified with the Nazi regime […] But we cannot make the separation between Heidegger the philosopher and Heidegger the man, for it contradicts your own philosophy. […] Is this really the way you would like to be remembered in the history of ideas? (Marcuse 1998, 263–264).\n\nIn a response to Herbert Marcuse, Heidegger wrote in January 1948 that Marcuse’s letter ‘shows me precisely how dificult it is to converse with persons who have not been living in Germany since 1933 and who judge the beginning of the National Socialist movement from its end’ (Wolin 1993, 162) and that there was not just a ‘regime that murdered millions of Jews’, but also one that murdered millions of ‘East Germans’ (Wolin 1993, 163). Marcuse, who coming from a Jewish family and being a Marxist had to flee from Nazi Germany, answered in May 1948 that Heidegger tried ‘to relativize […] a crime by saying that others would have done the same thing. Even further: how is it possible to equate the torture, the maiming, and the annihilations of millions of men with the forcible relocation of population groups who sufered none of these outrages’ (Wolin 1993, 164).\n\n38\n\nCritical Theory of Communication","previous_page":37,"next_page":39}