Bibliograph

Grand Hotel Abyss, the lives of the Frankfurt School, Stuart Jeffries

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Label

Grand Hotel Abyss, the lives of the Frankfurt School, Stuart Jeffries

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-428) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Grand Hotel Abyss

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

934193239

Responsibility statement

Stuart Jeffries

Sub title

the lives of the Frankfurt School

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

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

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