Jack Jacobs, “The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Importance of Dialectic Enlightenment
The Institute is associated with two profoundly important world famous books that continue to be widely read today. Adorno has a very major impact on for a time, including an impact on the United States. The last substantive chapter of dialectic enlightenment contains entitled elements of antisemitism. And if one looks at the authoritarian personality and scratches a little bit under the surface, what one finds is that the research was conducted under the auspices of the AJC.
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