Heidegger was a moron. Simple as that. I'm not just talking about his affiliations with National Socialism, although there is plenty of room for agreement on that simple premise. That's not enough, however, for me to classify him as a moron. A lot of otherwise intelligent people got roped into that particular scam, so I'm not going to give him demerits for that.So, Heidegger and Husserl were walking along the top of a cliff, and Husserl fell into the abyss. Why didn't Heidegger fall?
But Heidegger was still a moron. How could one read Being and Time and come up with the opposite conclusion? Even the most perfunctory treatment must lead the reader to this judgment. I mean, even Husserl noted that the creation of the concept of dasein was primarily a distraction from the essential challenge posed by phenomenology and not much more than a glorified exercise in philosophical anthropology. And don't get me started on the neo-Kantian critique. It's just too trenchant to get into here.