Jack Jacobs, “The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Role of Dialectic Enlightenment in the Evolution of Antisemitism
Horkheimer and a doorknob came to see that one couldn't explain antisemitism using only a strict Marxist analysis or relying only on an economic explanation of the relationship of Jews to non-Jews. One needed to bring to bear any number of other matters in order to come to grips with it, he says. Horkheimer: "The empirical studies and the more theoretically oriented studies interact with one another"
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