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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Jeffries, Stuart (1962-....)
Titre(s) : Grand Hotel Abyss [Texte imprimé] : the lives of the Frankfurt School / Stuart Jeffries
Publication : London ; New York, [New York] : Verso, 2017
Description matérielle : 440 pages ; 20 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-428) and index
"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." -- Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : École de Francfort -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
301.094 3 (23e éd.) = Sociologie et anthropologie - Europe centrale Allemagne
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1784785695. - ISBN 9781784785697
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45506440t
Notice n° :
FRBNF45506440
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