Horkheimer und Adorno über „jüdische Psychologie“. Ein vergessenes Theorieprogramm der 1940er Jahre
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Philipp von Wussow
Abstract
This article explores a forgotten theoretical program developed, and eventually dropped, by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno in the 1940s. In letters, drafts and memorandums, but also in the chapter “Elements of Anti-Semitism” in the Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer and Adorno sought to clarify whether anti-Semitic stereotypes corresponded in some way with certain “Jewish” behavioral patterns and character traits. But their socio-psychological mapping of contemporary Jewry revealed, first of all, the authors’ own stereotypes and biases toward the Jews. Upon their return to Germany, Horkheimer and Adorno abandoned this program, but many of the research methods that were employed to operationalize these biases survived in their sociological and pedagogical projects of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Horkheimer und Adorno über „jüdische Psychologie“. Ein vergessenes Theorieprogramm der 1940er Jahre
- The World of Yesterday versus The Turning Point: Art and the Politics of Recollection in the Autobiographical Narratives of Stefan Zweig and Klaus Mann
- Rückkehr in den Elfenbeinturm: Deutsch an der Hebräischen Universität
- Introduction: Arie Ludwig Strauss Between Hölderlin and Yehuda Halevi
- Arie Ludwig Strauss: “A Psalm Returns Home”
- A Blessed Journey: The Imprint of Yehuda Halevi’s Poetry on Ludwig Strauss’s Land Israel Poems
- Hölderlin in Jerusalem: Buber and Strauss on Poetry and the Limits of Dialogue
