To put it flat-footedly, for Heidegger history is a history of drifting away from truth which can only be countered by a return and/or a re-beginning while for Hegel, Marx and the critical theorists of the Dialectic of the Enlightenment history is (potentially for Adorno and Horkheimer and inevitably for Hegel and Marx) a process of progress through determinate negation and ongoing mediation rather in the style of Natorp's views on science as the rational reconstruction through which supposedly immediate experience (which is always already mediated) arrives more and more at its truth. In relation to this Heidegger's discussion of Marx and Hegel within the "Letter on Humanism" is particularly useful for there he understands both thinkers as representing important moments in the history of metaphysics but moments which, nonetheless, fundamentally help to lead to enframing. A thinking which escapes enframing won't, therefore, be dialectical.

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