Jews embodied the unachieved reconciliation of mind and nature.

Evidence

In this way they represented, as no other minority did, the opposite of the failed civilization: a relation between mind and nature in which the mind was genuinely the opposite of nature and nature genuinely the opposite of mind. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 364

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what ‘the opposite of the failed civilization’ means operationally for Horkheimer and Adorno: a genuine, mutual opposition rather than domination of one pole by the other.
• XREF: connects to: Jews uniquely contrasted civilization both downward to nature and upward to spirit. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1431; The Jews represented a happiness that purposive rational society cannot assimilate — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 331; Horkheimer and Adorno saw Jews as embodying happiness free of purposive rationality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1288
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Jews uniquely contrasted civilization both downward to nature and upward to spirit. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1431; The Jews represented a happiness that purposive rational society cannot assimilate — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 331; Horkheimer and Adorno saw Jews as embodying happiness free of purposive rationality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1288