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==Influence and reception== Upon its publication, reviewers credited Heidegger with "brilliance" and "genius".<ref name="Schmidt">{{cite book|author1=Schmidt, Dennis J.|authorlink1=Dennis J. Schmidt|author2=Heidegger, Martin |title=Being and Time |publisher=State University of New York Press|location=Albany|year=2010|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=2P-Lc872b1UC&lpg=PP1&hl=cs&pg=PR15&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false xv, xviii]|isbn=978-1-4384-3276-2}}</ref> The book was later seen as the "most influential version of existential philosophy."<ref>{{cite book |author=Wagner, Helmut R. |title=Phenomenology of Consciousness and Sociology of the Life-world: An Introductory Study |publisher=The University of Alberta Press |location=Edmonton |year=1983 |page=214 |isbn=0-88864-032-3}}</ref> [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]'s existentialism (of 1943) has been described as merely "a version of ''Being and Time''".<ref>{{cite book |author=Steiner, George |title=Martin Heidegger |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |year=1991 |page=[https://archive.org/details/martinheidegger000stei/page/5 5] |isbn=0-226-77232-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/martinheidegger000stei/page/5 }}</ref> The work also influenced other philosophers of Sartre's generation,<ref name="Scrutonp181">{{cite book |author=Scruton, Roger |author-link=Roger Scruton |title=Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left |publisher=Bloomsbury |location=London |year=2016 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=W7ClCgAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA181&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false 181] |isbn=978-1-4729-3595-3}}</ref> and exerted a notable influence on [[French philosophy]].<ref name="Scrutonp240">{{cite book |author=Scruton, Roger |author-link=Roger Scruton |title=Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left |publisher=Bloomsbury |location=London |year=2016 |page=240 |isbn=978-1-4729-3595-3}}</ref> Heidegger's work influenced the output of the [[Frankfurt School]] including [[JΓΌrgen Habermas]]'s hermeneutics and [[Herbert Marcuse]]'s early and abortive attempt to develop "Heideggerian Marxism."<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9780429443374-20|doi=10.4324/9780429443374-20|chapter=Heidegger and the Frankfurt School|title=The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School|year=2018|last1=Lafont|first1=Cristina|authorlink=Cristina Lafont|pages=282β294|isbn=9780429443374|s2cid=186944412 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Benhabib, Seyla |author-link1=Seyla Benhabib| author2=Marcuse, Herbert |title=Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity |publisher=MIT Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |year=1987 |pages=xxxii, x, xl |isbn=0-262-13221-4 }}</ref> [[Theodore Adorno]], in his 1964 book ''The Jargon of Authenticity,'' was critical of Heidegger's popularity in post-war Western Europe. Adorno accused Heidegger of evading ethical judgment by disingenuously presenting "authenticity" as a value-free, technical term {{Ndash}} rather than a positive doctrine of the good life.<ref>Gerry Stahl boundary 2 Vol. 3, No. 2 (Winter, 1975), pp. 489-498 (10 pages)</ref> Heidegger influenced psychoanalysis through [[Jacques Lacan]] as well as [[Medard Boss]] and others.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lacan|first=Jacques|date=2006|orig-year=1953|editor-last=Fink|editor-first=Bruce|title=The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis|journal=Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|location=New York|publication-date=2006|pages=262, 792 }}</ref> [[Paul Celan]], in his essays on poetic theory, incorporated some of Heidegger's ideas.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://jstor.org/stable/488241|jstor = 488241|title = The "Impossibility of Poetry": Celan and Heidegger in France|last1 = Anderson|first1 = Mark M.|journal = New German Critique|year = 1991|issue = 53|pages = 3β18|doi = 10.2307/488241|url-access = subscription}}</ref> ''Being and Time'' also separately influenced [[Alain Badiou]]'s work ''Being and Event'' (1988),<ref name="Scrutonp181" /> and also separately the [[enactivism|enactivist]] approach to [[cognition]] theory.<ref>Ward, Dave & Stapleton, Mog (2012). Es are good. Cognition as enacted, embodied, embedded, affective and extended. In Fabio Paglieri (ed.), Consciousness in Interaction: The role of the natural and social context in shaping consciousness.</ref><ref>Stendera, Marilyn (2015). Being-in-the-world, Temporality and Autopoiesis. _Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy_ 24:261β284.</ref> [[Bertrand Russell]] was dismissive of ''Being and Time'' ("One cannot help suspecting that language is here running riot"), and the analytic philosopher [[A. J. Ayer]] outright called Heidegger a charlatan. But the American philosopher [[Richard Rorty]] ranked Heidegger among the important philosophers of the twentieth century, including [[John Dewey]] and [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]].<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://cambridge.org/core/books/philosophy-of-heidegger/preface/AD50ABABCA3E65485CE85F587BB31211|doi = 10.1017/UPO9781844652655.001|chapter = Preface|title = The Philosophy of Heidegger|year = 2012|last1 = Watts|first1 = Michael|pages = vii-ix|isbn = 9781844652655}}</ref> The conservative British writer [[Roger Scruton]] (2002) called ''Being and Time'' a "description of a private spiritual journey" rather than genuine philosophy.<ref>{{cite book |author=Scruton, Roger |title=A Short History of Modern Philosophy |url=https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofmo00scrurich |url-access=registration |publisher=Routledge |location=London |year=2002 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofmo00scrurich/page/269 269]β271, 274 |isbn=0-415-26763-3}}</ref> But [[Stephen Houlgate]] (1999) compares Heidegger's achievements in ''Being and Time'' to those of Kant and Hegel.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Houlgate, Stephen |title=The Hegel Reader |publisher=[[Wiley-Blackwell|Blackwell Publishers]] |location=Oxford |year=1999 |page=ix |isbn=0-631-20347-8}}</ref> [[Simon Critchley]] (2009) writes that it is impossible to understand developments in [[continental philosophy]] after Heidegger without understanding ''Being and Time''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Critchley|first1=Simon|title=Being and Time, part 1: Why Heidegger Matters|url=https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/jun/05/heidegger-philosophy|work=The Guardian|date=8 June 2009|access-date=26 February 2015}}</ref>
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