Horkheimer insisted anti-Semitism research must analyze Jewish psychology and capitalism together

Evidence

Massing took the view that totalitarian anti-Semitism had nothing to do with the Jews, while a paper by Gurland presented a series of distinguishing features of Jewish thought and behaviour which would have had catastrophic consequences if published, this reinforced Horkheimer’s conviction that what was needed was research into the `interaction of both Jewish psychology and Antisemitism with Capitalism as a whole’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 390

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Institute’s longer trajectory of fusing psychoanalytic categories with Marxist political economy. — connects to: Horkheimer insisted economic and political analysis remain central despite collaborators’ disagreements. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 337; Horkheimer and Adorno made anti-Semitism the turning point of world history. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 361; Horkheimer subordinated empirical anti-Semitism research to abstract theory as mere illustration — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 342 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer insisted economic and political analysis remain central despite collaborators’ disagreements. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 337; Horkheimer and Adorno made anti-Semitism the turning point of world history. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 361; Horkheimer subordinated empirical anti-Semitism research to abstract theory as mere illustration — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 342 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer favored dialectical insight over empirical research into the facts. #complicates (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 745
• Horkheimer subordinated empirical anti-Semitism research to abstract theory as mere illustration #complicates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 342