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Jack Jacobs, “The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

New Books in Critical Theory

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The Frankfurt School in Jewish Matters

I was approached by Cambridge to write a book on the Frankfurt School in Jewish matters. I sent back a proposal and what I said in my initial proposal was, well, you know, the first part, I'll deal with Weimar. In the second part, I will talk about exile and the studies that they did of antisemitism. And then what I want to do is compare the work done by the members of the Frankfurt School on these issues with work done by other theorists such as Hannah Arendt.

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