Anti-Semitism cannot end until instrumental Enlightenment domination itself is abolished

Evidence

In short, the dilemma of the Jew was that he was identified both with the Enlightenment and with its opposite. His true emancipation as a man could only come when domination - that of capitalism, and more fundamentally, of the Enlightenment in its most instrumental and manipulative forms - was itself ended. Only when reconciliation, which ironically was the highest value of the Jewish faith, was realized in the social sphere could anti-Semitism truly end. Partial solutions such as Zionism46 and assimilation were destined to fail. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 702

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Clarifies the dialectical position that Jews are seen as both heirs of the Enlightenment and its opposite, which grounds the reasons Zionism and assimilation must fail.
  • XREF: connects to: Rational counter-arguments fail against anti-Semitism rooted in domination — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 126; Anti-Semitism is pathological projection stripped of self-reflection, not projection itself — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 150; Antisemitism persisted even after its economic basis vanished — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 527 (+4 more)

Broader Connections