Language:
English
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Arendt and Adorno
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2012) 173-196
Keywords:
Adorno, Theodor W.,
;
Arendt, Hannah,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
In the wake of the Holocaust, Arendt and Adorno developed different theories on antisemitism. Arendt's approach was a historicization of antisemitism, or interactionism - the view that antisemitism was an aspect of the relationship of Jews with the dominant society in the course of its modernization, while Adorno's was a mixed socio-psychoanalytical approach. Despite their differences, both Arendt and Adorno shared a common problem: both of them depended on elevation of the "conceptual Jew" to a central place in their paradigms. Their conceptual Jew was a cipher for the outsider, the queer, the nomad and, following Marx, was too closely identified with financial capitalism and the underside of modernity.
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