Jack Jacobs's The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism will be a major resource for many of us working in Critical Theory. Even-handed, clearly presented, and extensively researched, with seventy-eight pages of footnotes, the book's overarching thesis is both simple and urgent: Jacobs contests the popular ...

Jack Jacobs's The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism is a unique and valuable contribution to the secondary literature on the history of the institute for social research and. Critical theory more generally. his declared aim in the book is “to demonstrate that the Jewish origins of key members of the frankfurt ...

exception is an aphorism entitled "Glaube und Profit" ("Belief and. Profit"), which contains a debunking reduction of Jewish identity to class interests: "As the material base of ghetto life was left behind, the willingness to sacrifice life and property to one's religious belief also became a thing of the past. Among bourgeois Jews ...

different stages of their lives for Lowenthal and Horkheimer; and Judaism appears not to have been particularly important for Marcuse and Adorno. Yet all Jews were outsiders in Weimar Germany and all of the Frankfurt School were forced into exile because of their Jewish background after the rise of fascism in 1933.

doi: 10.2979/antistud.1.2.09. * * *. The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism. By Jack Jacobs. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 278 pages. $32.99 (paper). In 1943, while in exile in California, the German-Jewish philosopher. Max Horkheimer griped in a letter to his colleague Friedrich Pollock.

generation of the Frankfurt School were all Jews by ethnic background and the Institute of Social Research itself was funded by ... his life Horkheimer completely accepted his Jewish identification and achieved a grand synthesis between Judaism and Critical Theory (Carlebach. 1978, 254–257). (Critical Theory is the name ...

Mar 24, 2015 ... of Jews in Europe without inquiring into any dimension of Jewish thinking or Jewish life itself. A similar approach was taken a few years later in. Adorno and Horkheimer's essay “Elements of Anti-Semitism: Limits of. Enlightenment” in Dialectic of Enlightenment. Since Adorno and Horkhei- mer explain ...

Frankfurt. SCHOOL. RELIGION. ON. THE. Key. Writings by the. Major. Thinkers. EDITED BY. EDUARDO MENDIETA. ROUTLEDGE. NEW YORK AND ... “The Frankfurt School on Religion is an indispensable resource for all critical social and ...... immanent to the reality in which the Jews lived their lives, according to which.

on “antisemitism without Jews,” or Adorno's memorable phrase ... Frankfurt School. Of particular importance in this context are the Institute's postwar studies on the dynamics of German guilt, defense mechanisms, and “secondary antisemitism,” including ..... lives up to the expectations of one's own superego, and at the same.

anti-Semitism, Frankfurt School, labor, Paul Massing, solidarity .... At school or in your home town? What were they like? 5) How do you feel about what the Nazis did to the Jews in Germany? 6) Are there people in this country who ... Close to 4500 questionnaires were distributed in one way or another over the life of the.

Jan 1, 2015 ... many of his early-twentieth century Jewish and Christian peers, including Martin Buber,. Ernst Simon, Rudolf ... anything, can data visualization tell us about Rosenzweig's life and work, or about. German-Jewish history more ...... The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism. Cambridge: Cambridge ...

Fascist Propaganda,” in Anti-Semitism: A Social Disease, ed. Ernst Simmel [New York, 1946], pp. 125–26). See also Adorno, The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas' Radio. Addresses (1943; Stanford, Calif., 2000). 15. Quoted in Jack Jacobs, The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism ( Cam-.

The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Jay, Martin. 2011. “Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of Contextualization”. New Literary History 42: 557-571. ______. 2016. Reason after its eclipse. On late Critical Theory. University of Wisconsin ...

Shoah Resource Center, The International School for Holocaust Studies. 2/1. Frankfurt am Main. City in western Germany. In 1933, more than 26,000 Jews lived in Frankfurt, making the city the second largest Jewish community in Germany. As soon as the Nazis rose to national power in January 1933, the Jews of. Frankfurt ...

The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Jay, Martin. 2011. “Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of Contextualization”. New Literary History 42: 557-571. ______. 2016. Reason after its eclipse. On late Critical Theory. University of Wisconsin ...

Apr 15, 1994 ... Freud and the. Frankfurt School by Michael Minnicino. Chorus: B'nai B'rith networks will have a devastating im pact on the culture of the twentieth century. Sigmund Freud, ... gence at the expense of Jews will be perhaps most clearly documented in .... den, and fill his life with barren toil and battle. " This stuff ...

The Frankfurt School and 'Left Fascism'. A crucial turning point in the Sixties took place when, in the wake of violent demonstrations, Jürgen Habermas attacked the German student movement's growing contempt for democratic structures as ' left-wing fascism.' Here is the context: On June 2, 1967, the student of German ...

the Philanthropin school in Frankfurt, the history of Frankfurt's Jews in the. Middle Ages and early modern period was examined in a series of detailed studies carried out in the early twentieth century. These studies focused renewed attention on life in the Judengasse. For their part the Nazis – who came to power not long ...

Antisemitism and the. Constitution of Sociology. Edited and with an introduction by MARCEL STOETZLER. University of Nebraska Press | Lincoln and London ... Coldly Admiring the Jews: Werner Sombart and Classical. German Sociology on ... The Irrationality of the Rational: The Frankfurt School and Its Theory of Society  ...

The Frankfurt School Of Social Research And The. Pathologization Of ... numbers of Jews may have been unaware of their existence. Even Jewish leftist radicalism —surely the most widespread and influential Jewish sub-culture of the ... he disliked the Germans and in later life criticized Jewish colleagues for converting to ...