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Grand Hotel Abyss - The Lives of the Frankfurt School (Paperback)
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Grand Hotel Abyss - The Lives of the Frankfurt School (Paperback)
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List price R390
Loot Price R356
Discovery Miles 3 560
You Save R34 (9%)
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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. 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. 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.
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