Horkheimer held that society can be understood through anti-Semitism

Evidence

A few months before, Horkheimer had written to Laski, referring to the draft of an anti-Semitism project which had appeared in SPSS: `Just as it is true that one can only understand anti-Semitism by examining our society, it seems to me it is becoming equally true that society itself can now only be understood through anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism demonstrates from the example of the minority what is in fact in store for the majority as well: that people can be turned into administrative objects.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1291

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘administrative objects’ formulation prefigures the administered-world critique central to the Institute’s later work. — connects to: Society’s transformation into administrative objects is best seen through anti-Semitism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 3394; Adorno and Horkheimer grounded anti-Semitism analysis in sadism and identification — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1421; Horkheimer sought scientific proof that anti-Semitism is a symptom of hostility to democracy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1527 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno and Horkheimer grounded anti-Semitism analysis in sadism and identification #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1421
• Horkheimer sought scientific proof that anti-Semitism is a symptom of hostility to democracy. #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1527
• Horkheimer traced fascist language corruption back through Jewish religious prohibitions against naming God #qualifies (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 701