LEADER 04591cam a2200481 i 4500001 258528 005 20240621231249.0 008 170725t20162016enk b 001 0deng 010 2016015391 020 9781784785680 |q(hardback) 020 1784785687 |q(hardback) 020 |z9781784785710 020 |z9781784785703 024 8 40026553217 035 (OCoLC)ocn934193239 035 258528 042 pcc 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBDX |dOCLCF |dERASA |dCHVBK |dFM0 |dZLM |dOCLCO |dOCL |dOCLCO |dBKL |dOCLCO |dPAU |dOCLCO |dNDD |dOCLCO |dYUS |dIGA |dOCLCO |dOCLCA |dVA@ |dOMB |dVP@ |dL2U |dOCLCQ |dVP@ |dOCLCQ |dLHM 050 00 HM467 |b.J44 2016 100 1 Jeffries, Stuart, |d1962- |eauthor. 245 10 Grand Hotel Abyss : |bthe lives of the Frankfurt School / |cStuart Jeffries. 264 1 London ;New York : |bVerso, |c2016. 264 4 |c©2016 300 440 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-428) and index. 520 2 "Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the Frankfurt School"-- |cProvided by publisher. 505 0 Introduction: Against the current -- Part I. 1900-1920 : Condition: critical -- Fathers and sons, and other conflicts -- Part II. The 1920s : The world turned upside down -- A bit of the other -- Part III. The 1930s : Show us the way to the next whiskey bar -- The power of negative thinking -- In the crocodile's jaws -- Modernism and all that jazz -- A new world -- Part IV. The 1940s : The road to Port Bou -- In league with the devil -- The fight against fascism -- Part V: The 1950s : The ghost sonata -- The liberation of eros -- Part VI. The 1960s : Up against the wall, motherfuckers -- Philosophising with Molotov cocktails -- Part VII. Back from the abyss : Habermas and critical theory after the 1960s : The Frankfurt spider -- Consuming passions: critical theory in the new millennium. 520 "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. Their lives, like their ideas, profoundly, sometimes tragically, reflected and shaped the shattering events of the twentieth century. 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. Benjamin, with his last great work--the incomplete Arcades Project--in his suitcase, was arrested in Spain and committed suicide when threatened with deportation to Nazi-occupied France. On the other side of the Atlantic, Adorno failed in his bid to become a Hollywood screenwriter, denounced jazz, and even met Charlie Chaplin in Malibu. After the war, there was a resurgence of interest in the School. From the relative comfort of sun-drenched California, Herbert Marcuse wrote the classic One Dimensional Man, which influenced the 1960s counterculture and thinkers such as Angela Davis; while in a tragic coda, Adorno died from a heart attack following confrontations with student radicals in Berlin. 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. Grand Hotel Abyss shows how much these ideas still tell us about our age of social media and runaway consumption."--Publisher's description. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Frankfurt school of sociology |xHistory. 650 0 Critical theory |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Frankfurt school of sociology |vBiography. 650 0 Sociologists |zGermany |vBiography. 650 0 Philosophers |zGermany |vBiography. 650 0 Sociology |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 Germany |xIntellectual life |y20th century. 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 852 0 |bstacks |hHM467 |i.J44 2016