Language:
French
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Archives de Philosophie
Angaben zur Quelle:
86,1 (2023) 71-98
Keywords:
Freud, Sigmund,
;
Horkheimer, Max,
;
Adorno, Theodor W.,
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
Abstract:
This paper examines Horkheimer and Adorno’s controversial account of “political anti-Semitism.” In essence, my reading tracks their critical appropriation of Freud. I first show how they draw on Totem and Taboo to show that at the core of the Enlightenment process lies a prohibition on mimesis, or imitation. I then show how they rely on Freud’s notion of identification and ego formation to claim that imitation is nevertheless what enables the formation of the rational self and the Enlightenment process. In my reading, this tension creates the conditions for political anti-Semitism to emerge.
DOI:
10.3917/aphi.861.0071
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