Geheimnis und Tod

Abstract

The contribution is based on the findings of the theoretical research on antisemitism, while a proposal for a theory of modern antisemitism is formulated. Structural formations of civil society and the socialization of the individual are taken into account. Because antisemitism have to be understood as a negative guiding principle of modernity, a theory of antisemitism must start with the structural forms and contradictions of modern society itself. But it must also go beyond that – and locate the theoretical core of antisemitism in the political itself. At the center of these considerations, the relationship the public, private, and the secret is located, and also the enchanted disenchantment of modern society in its relationship to death.