Grand Hotel Abyss
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In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Not only would they change the way we think, but also the subjects we deem worthy of intellectual investigation.
Grand Hotel Abyss combines biography, philosophy, and storytelling to reveal how the Frankfurt thinkers gathered in hopes of understanding the politics of culture during the rise of fascism. Some of them, forced to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany, later found exile in the United States. By taking popular culture seriously as an object of study-whether it was film, music, ideas, or consumerism-the Frankfurt School elaborated upon the nature and crisis of our mass-produced, mechanised society.
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- Verso
- 9781784785703
- 9781784785697
- ePub
- 0
- Stuart Jeffries
- English
- 2016-09-06
- 100
- 10
- 10
Kaflar
- Introduction: Against the Current
- Part I: 1900–1920
- 1. Condition: Critical
- 2. Fathers and Sons, and Other Conflicts
- Part II: The 1920s
- 3. The World Turned Upside Down
- 4. A Bit of the Other
- Part III: The 1930s
- 5. Show Us the Way to the Next Whiskey Bar
- 6. The Power of Negative Thinking
- 7. In the Crocodile’s Jaws
- 8. Modernism and All That Jazz
- 9. A New World
- Part IV: The 1940s
- 10. The Road to Port Bou
- 11. In League with the Devil
- 12. The Fight Against Fascism
- Part V: The 1950s
- 13. The Ghost Sonata
- 14. The Liberation of Eros
- Part VI: The 1960s
- 15. Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers
- 16. Philosophising with Molotov Cocktails
- Part VII: Back from the Abyss – Habermas and Critical Theory After the 1960s
- 17. The Frankfurt Spider
- 18. Consuming Passions: Critical Theory in the New Millennium
- Further Reading
- Notes
- Index