Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

Synopsis

Grand Hotel Abyss Investigates The Lives And Afterlives Of The Critical Theorists Who Formed The Frankfurt School-- 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. Stuart Jeffries. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 393-428) And Index.