Grand Hotel Abyss
Subtitle: the lives of the Frankfurt School
By: Stuart Jeffries
Publisher: Verso, an imprint of New Left Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781784785680
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Sociology; Frankfurt school of sociology; Philosophers; Sociologists; Intellectual life; Critical theory; Biography; History
Description: "Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the Frankfurt School"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-428) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Against the Current; title: Part I: 1900-1920; title: Condition: Critical; title: Fathers and Sons, and Other Conflicts; title: Part II: The 1920s; title: The World Turned Upside Down; title: A Bit of the Other; title: Part III: The 1930s; title: Show Us the Way to the Next Whiskey Bar; title: The Power of Negative Thinking; title: In the Crocodile's Jaws; title: Modernism and All That Jazz; title: A New World; title: Part IV: The 1940s; title: The Road to Port Bou; title: In League with the Devil; title: The Fight Against Fascism; title: Part V: The 1950s; title: The Ghost Sonata; title: The Liberation of Eros; title: Part VI: The 1960s; title: Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers; title: Philosophising with Molotov Cocktails; title: Part VII: Back From the Abyss : Habermas and Critical Theory After the 1960s; title: The Frankfurt Spider; title: Consuming Passions : Critical Theory in the New Millennium.