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Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

"Mimesis and Antisemitism: Horkheimer & Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment"
Featuring Anson Rabinbach

KWH, University of Pennsylvania | Wednesday, March 03, 1999; 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Free at Door (Reservation not required)

Organized by Vance Bell
Theorizing Series



Project Website (with 65 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11033/

Full title: "Mimesis and Antisemitism: Horkheimer & Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, or: Why Were The Jews Sacrificed?"


Anson Rabinbach is Professor of History at Princeton University specializing in 20th century European history, and German intellectual history. He is currently Director of European Cultural Studies and teaches courses on European intellectuals, fascism, and the history of technology. He is author of The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1927-1934 (1983); The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity (California, 1992); and most recently, In the Shadow of Catastrope: German Intellectuals between Apocalypse and Enlightenment (California, 1997).