Language:
English
Year of publication:
1980
Titel der Quelle:
New German Critique
Angaben zur Quelle:
19 (1980) 137-149
Keywords:
Frankfurt school of sociology Philosophy
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Antisemitism Psychological aspects
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Antisemitism Research
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Antisemitism Research
;
Jewish sociologists
Abstract:
Discusses the fact that although many intellectuals belonging to the Frankfurt School (in Weimar Germany) were Jewish, they minimized the significance of antisemitism. As Marxists, they described antisemitism as part of the crisis of capitalist society. After the institution moved to the USA in 1935, with the integration of psychoanalysis into their thought, and in reaction to Nazi Germany's antisemitism and its subsequent wartime atrocities, the Frankfurt scholars began to engage in serious research on antisemitism. During the 1940s, research projects on the psychology of antisemitism sponsored by American Jewish organizations resulted in the publication of the 5-volume "Studies in Prejudice" series. In 1947, Horkheimer and Adorno published a general theory of antisemitism in their work "Dialectic of Enlightenment", which viewed hostility toward Jews as a revolt of nature against civilization.
Note:
Appeared also in "Germans and Jews since the Holocaust" (1986) 287-301, and in his "Permanent Exiles; Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America" (1985) 90-100. A German translation appeared as "Frankfurter Schule und Judentum; die Antisemitismusanalyse der Kritischen Theorie" in "Geschichte und Gesellschaft"" 5,4 (1979) 439-454. An abridged German version appeared as "Die Antisemitismusanalyse der Kritischen Theorie" in "Die Frankfurter Schule und Frankfurt" (2009) 136-149. Appeared in Portuguese as "Os judeus e a Escola de Frankfurt; teoria crítica e sua análise do anti-semitismo" in "Construindo a imagem do judeu" (1994) 93-117.
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