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247 I n d e x abject, the, 66, 83; modernist art as, 66, 83, 87, 89 abstraction, 90, 91, 108, 114; and the concrete, contrasted, 90, 108, 114, 115; as dead, devoid of life, 91; Jews and, 17, 29, 108, 113; Semitic inclination towards, 109; and time mind, 90, 99, 114 Ackerley, C. J. and S. E. Gontarski, 183, 193 Adorno, Theodor, 5, 6, 18, 121, 138, 139–168, 192, 199, 225–226n54; on aesthetics after Auschwitz, 18, 138, 139–142, 156, 157–158, 167, 168, 170, 198–199; on antimodernism, 140, 142, 159–160, 164; on antisemitism, 140, 142, 146–148, 156 (see also antisemitism: as false projection; antisemitism: and repression; mimesis: and antisemitism); on antisemitism and antimodernism, parallels between, 138, 142, 145, 159–160, 164, 167; on artistic play, 157, 158; on Beckett, 157–159, 168, 170, 172, 173, 198, 225–226n54; and Bilderverbot (see Bilderverbot); coldness, critique of, 164–165; committed art, 157–158; false projection (see false projection); identity thinking, rejection of, 143–144, 222n15; improper response, notion of (see improper response); Jewish gestures and expressions, 146, 149; Jews as abject, 153, 154, 168; Jews achieving what Christianity could not, 153, 154, 155; Jews, accusations against (ritual murder, well-poisoning, etc.), 148; Jews and capitalism, 146, 149–150; Jews and civilization, 153–154; Jews and mimesis (see mimesis; mimesis, repression of ); Jews and modernism, 140, 141–142, 145, 157–158, 167, 168; Jews and nomadism, 145, 151, 157; Jews as parasites, 150; Jews and projective object selection, 148–150; Jews’ responsibility for antisemitism, 142, 146, 148, 149–153, 155, 156, 224n44; materialist thinking of, 140–144 passim, 147, 160; mimesis (see mimesis); modernism as Jewish, rejection of notion of, 141–142, 143, 145, 167; modernism and negativity, pleasure in the repressed, 159; “Old Adam,” 162–166; origins and outcomes, relation between, 144, 145, 152, 224n44; on postwar Europe, 156, 158, 161, 166; postwar valorization of Jews as sublime other, rejection of, 141; recollection, value of, 162–166, 167; on reflection, 147, 161, 166; regression, critique of, 139, 152; transformation of the subject, 18, 141, 161–162, 166, 167–168; on Wagner, 29; working through, 18, 141, 161–162, 167–168 (see also improper response: and Bilderverbot modernism) 248 Index Adorno, Theodor, works of: Aesthetic Theory, 144, 159, 160; Dialectic of Enlightenment, 7–8, 18, 82, 142–156 passim, 192; “Education after Auschwitz,” 161, 166; Minima Moralia, 225–226n54; Negative Dialectics, 142–144, 157, 162; “Trying to Understand Endgame,” 144, 157, 160 advertising, 96–97, 114; as recycling (of waste), 97 Ahasuerus. See Wandering Jew, the Alexander IV (pope), 203n5 Althusser, Louis, 127 “Ancient East,” 90, 98, 108, 109 Anderson, Benedict, 130 Anidjar, Gil, 17, 99–100, 108, 115 antifascist aesthetics, notion of, 83, 86 antimodernism, 2; antisemitism, parallels with, 138, 142, 145, 159–160, 164, 167; defense of the sacred masking destructive rage, 159, 163; as false projection, 140, 142, 159–160, 164. See also improper response: and Bilderverbot modernism; and individual authors antisemite, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12–13, 14, 17, 18, 28, 82, 138, 155–156; as antimodern, 14; envy of Jews’ self-overcoming and consequent freedom, 156. See also antisemitism antisemitic interpretation of modernist form, 1–6, 12–17, 19, 23–24; as foreshadowing/paralleling Nazi genocide, 2, 4, 5, 15, 16, 55. See also Judaization; Judaized or “Jewish” art, qualities of; and individual authors and Judaization antisemitism, 3, 25–28, 33, 43, 44, 46; as anticapitalist and anticommunist, 96; antimodernism, parallels with, 138, 142, 145, 159–160, 164, 167; as contaminatory, 10, 12–14, 202n15; contradictory content of, 96, 129, 153–154; as degenerate, 44; as false projection, 7, 8, 14, 18, 140, 142, 146–150, 152–156 passim, 159–160, 164, 223n28, 223n31; and mimesis (see mimesis: and antisemitism); and modernism, shared representational problematic, 17, 26, 124; modernist antisemitism, 173 (see also Céline, Louis-Ferdinand; Lewis, Wyndham; Wagner, Richard); Nazism and (see National Socialism: antisemitism of ); and personification (see personification, antisemitic; Postone, Moishe); as problem of representation, 123–124; as redemptive re-creation of meaning, 177; and repression, 82, 146–147, 148, 154 Arab, figure of, 17, 100, 105, 108, 115 art-bolshevism, 53, 55, 74, 76, 84, 85, 116 “Art Scab, The,” 80–81 Aschheim, Steven, 25, 102 Assmann, Jan, 151, 228n12 Astro, Alan, 227n9 audience and affective response, 158, 166, 225n53. See also improper response: and Bilderverbot modernism Auerbach, Erich, 190 Auschwitz. See Holocaust, the authoritarian personality, 159 avant-garde, the, 63, 75, 77, 81, 214n8...

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