Grand Hotel Abyss Jeffries Stuart
Grand Hotel Abyss Jeffries Stuart Who were the Frankfurt School--Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer--and why do they matter today?In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and…
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Grand Hotel Abyss Jeffries Stuart
Who were the Frankfurt School--Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer--and why do they matter today?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. Not only would they change the way we think, but also the subjects we deem worthy of intellectual investigation. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse.
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