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

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, an imprint of New Left Books, 2016Description: 440 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781784785680 (hbk)
  • 1784785687 (hbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.01
LOC classification:
  • HM 467 J47g 2016
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
Scope and content: "Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the Frankfurt School"-- Provided by publisher.
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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HM 467 J47g 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000117586

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

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

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

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