Theodor Adorno
Why We Need To Abolish The Pledge Of Allegiance Now
The pledge reveals the central, humiliating lie of American life – this country has not earned its loyalty, not from everyone, and thus demands it.
How Hannah Arendt Is Being Used and Misused in the Age of Trump
Two major articles out now draw contemporary lessons from Hannah Arendt’s writings on totalitarianism and power.
Richard Spencer’s Master’s Thesis Was an Anti-Semitic Critique — of a Jewish Philosopher
Seriously, how does an anti-Semite build a philosophy of white nationalism — at least to some extent — on the study of Jewish philosophers?
Deconstructing the Jewishness of the Frankfurt School
The thinkers of the Frankfurt School of critical theory were predominantly Jewish. But how did their Jewishness affect Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno and friends?
A Jewish Philosopher’s Love, Loss and Solace
The German Jewish philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), not to be confused with the Swiss Jewish composer Ernest Bloch, is still remembered for such landmark books as “The Spirit of Utopia,” “The Principle of Hope,” and “The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays.”
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Ruth Franklin is the author of “A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction.” Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog series. For more information on the series, please visit: