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This brilliant group biography asks who were the Frankfurt School and why they matter today The Frankfurt Institute of Social Research, founded in 1923, but later moving to the US during the war, were a group of thinkers whose lives and philosophies profoundly, sometimes tragically, reflected and shaped the shattering events of the twentieth century. Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Jürgen Habermas and others changed not just how we think but what we think about. Stuart Jeffries presents a gripping narrative that bring these thinkers to life, showing how their ideas developed out of their times: from the terrors of Nazi Germany to the blissed-out California of the 1960s. Grand Hotel Abyss shows us how culture—ideas, music, film, shopping—became the battleground for political struggle. Combining biography, philosophy and story-telling Jeffries reveals the day-to-day goings-on in the Institute; how...

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Author

Stuart Jeffries

Publisher

Verso, an imprint of New Left Books

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781784785710

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Memoir, Historical Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.05 / 5 (213 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13