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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

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

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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).

Organized by Vance Bell


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MLA Style: Anson Rabinbach. "Mimesis and Antisemitism: Horkheimer & Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment." Slought Foundation Online Content. [03 March 1999; Accessed 7 February 2012]. <http://slought.org/content/11033/>.






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