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Author:

Jeffries, Stuart, 1964- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Versoan imprint of New Left Books,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

440 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Frankfurt school of sociology--History.
Critical theory--History--20th century.
Frankfurt school of sociology--Biography.
Sociologists--Germany--Biography.
Philosophers--Germany--Biography.
Sociology--Germany--History--20th century.
Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.

Notes:

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

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.

ISBN:

1784785687 (hbk)
9781784785680 (hbk)

LCCN:

2016015391

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)