Grand Hotel Abyss : the lives of the Frankfurt School / Stuart Jeffries.

Author: Jeffries, Stuart, 1964-

Imprint:London ; New York : Verso, an imprint of New Left Books, 2016.

Description440 pages ; 24 cm

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-428) and index.

Note:"Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the Frankfurt School"-- Provided by publisher.

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