Adorno traced anti-Semitism to the Jews’ incomplete or refused transition from nomadism to settlement

Evidence

At a very early stage of the history of humanity, the Jews either scorned the transition from nomadism to settled habitation and remained nomadic, or went through the change inadequately and superficially, in a kind of pseudomorphosis. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 298

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘pseudomorphosis’ as the incomplete, superficial adoption of settled habitation — mineralogical metaphor repurposed for cultural history.
• QUESTION: Where does ‘pseudomorphosis’ come from in Adorno’s vocabulary — Spengler, or the Institute’s earlier use of the term?
• XREF: connects to: For Adorno, antisemitism casts Jews as embodying modernity’s repressed other side; Anti-Semitism rationalizes resentment against the Jews for refusing the instinctual repression of settled work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 298; Adorno traced anti-Semitism to the Jews’ refusal of settled work and civilized repression — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1143 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: For Adorno, antisemitism casts Jews as embodying modernity’s repressed other side; Anti-Semitism rationalizes resentment against the Jews for refusing the instinctual repression of settled work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 298; Adorno traced anti-Semitism to the Jews’ refusal of settled work and civilized repression — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1143 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno traced anti-Semitism to the Jews’ refusal of settled work and civilized repression #corroborates (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1143