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The Frankfurt school, Jewish lives, and antisemitism /

0521513758

1316120988

9780521513753

9780521730273

9781316120989

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The Frankfurt school, Jewish lives, and antisemitism /

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Jack Jacobs, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

viii, 268 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-257) and index

Introduction -- 1. Jewish life paths and the Institute of Social Research in the Weimar Republic -- 2. The significance of antisemitism: the exile years -- 3. Critical theorists and the state of Israel -- Conclusion

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"The history of the Frankfurt School cannot be fully told without examining the relationships of critical theorists to their Jewish family backgrounds. And yet in all three of these eras, Jewish matters had significant effects on the Frankfurt School's key figures: Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. At some points, their Jewish family backgrounds clarify their life paths; at others, these backgrounds help explain why the leaders of the School stressed the significance of antisemitism. In the post-Second World War era, the differing relationships of critical theorists to their Jewish origins illuminate their distinctive stances toward Israel. This book investigates how the Jewish backgrounds of major critical theorists, and the differing ways in which they related to their origins, affected their work, the history of the Frankfurt School, and the differences that emerged between them over time"--

Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Antisemitism-- Germany-- 20th century

Frankfurt school of sociology-- History-- 20th century

Jewish sociologists-- Germany, Biography

Sociology-- Germany-- History-- 20th century

Jacobs, Jack Lester,1953-

20170310015706.0

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