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"Mimesis and Antisemitism: Horkheimer & Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment"

Anson Rabinbach

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Event Date: Wednesday, March 03, 1999
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
Theorizing Series | Organized by Vance Bell

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

Full title: "Mimesis and Antisemitism: Horkheimer & Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, or: Why Were The Jews Sacrificed?"


Anson Rabinbach is Professor of History at Princeton University specializing in 20th century European history, and German intellectual history. He is currently Director of European Cultural Studies and teaches courses on European intellectuals, fascism, and the history of technology. He is author of The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1927-1934 (1983); The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity (California, 1992); and most recently, In the Shadow of Catastrope: German Intellectuals between Apocalypse and Enlightenment (California, 1997).

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