Grand Hotel Abyss : the lives of the Frankfurt School / Stuart Jeffries.
Grand Hotel Abyss : the lives of the Frankfurt School / Stuart Jeffries.
Grand Hotel Abyss : the lives of the Frankfurt School / Stuart Jeffries.
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London ; New York : Verso, 2016.
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G 2017/5680
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Language
English
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Physical content
440 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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 th...
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Publisher
London ; New York : Verso, 2016.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2016.
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"Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the Frankfurt School"-- Provided by publisher.
"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 t...
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Grand Hotel Abyss : the lives of the Frankfurt School / Stuart Jeffries.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-428) and index.
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©2016
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G 2017/5680
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74VKVgBZVyPy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgBZVyPy
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ISBN
1784785687 (hbk.)
9781784785680 (hbk.)
DDC
301.01
MMS ID
991024148800702626
