Adorno proposed anti-Semitism as the crystallization point of the joint book.

Evidence

How would it be if the book … were to crystallize around anti-Semitism? This would bring with it the concretization and limitation which we have been looking for. It would also be possible for the topic to motivate most of the Institute’s associates, whereas if we write something like a critique of the present judged by the category of the individual, my nightmare is that Marcuse would then prove that the category of the individual has contained both progressive and reactionary elements since the early days of the bourgeoisie. Then again, anti-Semitism is today really the central injustice, and our form of physiognomy must attend to the world where it shows its face at its most gruesome. Finally, the question of anti-Semitism is the one in which what we are writing would be most likely to find an effective context, without our having to lose anything by it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1290

Categorization

• XREF: This directly sets up the birth of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, whose seeds and circumstances are traced here. — connects to: Adorno proposed antisemitism as the focus for the Institute’s collective book project. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 735

Broader Connections

• Adorno proposed antisemitism as the focus for the Institute’s collective book project. #corroborates (0.98) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 735