02974cam a22003373 4500 117309 117309 FRBNF455064400000001 BJBSDDR 20230411090833.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 221020s2017 enk||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 1784785695 9781784785697 OCoLC967767905 BSBJDDR eng eng HM 467 J47g 2017 301.01 Jeffries, Stuart, 1962- 25718 Grand Hotel Abyss : the lives of the Frankfurt School / Stuart Jeffries. London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2017 440 pages ; 20 cm. 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 they change the way we think, but also the subjects we deem worthy of intellectual investigation. 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 of them, forced to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany, later found exile in the United States. Benjamin, with his last great work--the incomplete Arcades Project--in his suitcase, was arrested in Spain and committed suicide when threatened with deportation to Nazi-occupied France. On the other side of the Atlantic, Adorno failed in his bid to become a Hollywood screenwriter, denounced jazz, and even met Charlie Chaplin in Malibu. After the war, there was a resurgence of interest in the School. From the relative comfort of sun-drenched California, Herbert Marcuse wrote the classic One Dimensional Man, which influenced the 1960s counterculture and thinkers such as Angela Davis; while in a tragic coda, Adorno died from a heart attack following confrontations with student radicals in Berlin. By taking popular culture seriously as an object of study--whether it was film, music, ideas, or consumerism--the Frankfurt School elaborated upon the nature and crisis of our mass-produced, mechanised society. Grand Hotel Abyss shows how much these ideas still tell us about our age of social media and runaway consumption. 26269 Teoría crítica Historia Siglo XX 9456 Sociología Alemania Historia Siglo XX 26271 Escuela de sociología de Frankfurt 13587 Sociólogos Alemania Siglo XX 691 Filósofos Biografías Alemania 26270 Alemania Vida intelectual Siglo XX lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2022-10-20 0 HM 467 J47g 2017 00000165833 2022-10-20 00:00:00 1 2022-10-20 BK