ABSTRACT
It is interesting to note the ways in which critical accounts of antisemitism have followed the path set out in Adorno and Horkheimer’s critique of the Enlightenment in their study Dialectic of Enlightenment.1 Foremost among the themes of this work was the manner in which the trajectory of Enlightenment praxis begins as a critical force and ends as a conservative one. Adorno and Horkheimer traced this trajectory through the intimate connection they saw between society’s actual relations with nature and its conceptual representations of it. In both the material and the conceptual spheres the key for Adorno and Horkheimer was domination; the nature of domination is intimately connected to conceptual domination of nature.
