Adorno and Horkheimer came to identify their own project with Judaism.

Evidence

Horkheimer and Adorno’s view of themselves as hedonistic thinkers concentrating on the recovery and transcendence of instinct developed into a cautious identification with an interpretation of Judaism as a historical form of determinate negation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 364

Categorization

• XREF: Connects their negative dialectics and rejection of identity-thinking to a reading of Judaism as determinate negation — the biographical link between their method and their object of study. — connects to: Horkheimer and Adorno saw Jews as embodying happiness free of purposive rationality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1288; Horkheimer derived his social perception from Jewish collective experience; Adorno fused Hegelian determinate negation with Horkheimer’s Jewish monotheism to justify Critical Theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 534 (+1 more)
• SHARE: The niche fact that the Dialectic of Enlightenment project quietly fused the authors’ self-image with their interpretation of Judaism is exactly the kind of detail a reader of Frankfurt School intellectual history would want flagged.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer and Adorno saw Jews as embodying happiness free of purposive rationality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1288; Horkheimer derived his social perception from Jewish collective experience; Adorno fused Hegelian determinate negation with Horkheimer’s Jewish monotheism to justify Critical Theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 534 (+1 more)