Adorno conceived Jews as the enlightenment’s world-historical proletariat, stripped of all power.
Evidence
In one of the many ideas and suggestions he was constantly producing, Adorno thus put in a nutshell what was to motivate both him and Horkheimer later on when they were working together on the project: the idea of the Jews as the proletariat of the world-historical process of enlightenment, deprived of every vestige of power. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 297
Categorization
- DEFINE: Coins the governing image for the Institute’s anti-Semitism work: Jews as the negated subject of enlightenment history.
- XREF: connects to: Adorno saw Jews as occupying the proletariat’s place at the pole opposite concentrated power. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 297; Adorno conceived of the Jews as the universal proletariat of the enlightenment process — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1140; The fate of the Jews absorbed the proletariat’s world-historical role for Adorno — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1139
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno saw Jews as occupying the proletariat’s place at the pole opposite concentrated power. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 297; Adorno conceived of the Jews as the universal proletariat of the enlightenment process — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1140; The fate of the Jews absorbed the proletariat’s world-historical role for Adorno — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1139
Broader Connections
- Adorno conceived of the Jews as the universal proletariat of the enlightenment process
#corroborates(1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1140 - The fate of the Jews absorbed the proletariat’s world-historical role for Adorno
#expands(0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1139