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<h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal;
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Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School</h2>
<div class="bylines" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block;">by<span
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<div class="teaser" style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px;
font-size: 17px; line-height: 22px;">This brilliant group
biography asks who were the Frankfurt School and why they
matter today</div>
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font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">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.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Grand Hotel Abyss</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Arcades Project</em>—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.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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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<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="margin:
0px; padding: 0px;">One Dimensional Man</em>, 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.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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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.<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="margin:
0px; padding: 0px;">Grand Hotel Abyss</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>shows how much these
ideas still tell us about our age of social media and runaway
consumption.</div>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ISBN: 9781784785680</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">20 September 2016</p>
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<div class="body" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Throughout
the book, Jeffries demonstrates that he is comfortable and
conversant with the often thorny philosophical ideas of
his subjects. A rich, intellectually meaty history.”</div>
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enthusiastic reception from academics, arm chair
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<div class="body" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Jeffries
moves swiftly across the decades, retracing the jagged
paths from the official founding of the Institute for
Social Research in Frankfurt in June 1924, through its
years in exile in New York in the ’30s and Los Angeles in
the ’40s and its hasty return to Frankfurt in the early
postwar years, up to the work of Horkheimer and Adorno’s
prized protégé Jürgen Habermas and the Institute’s legacy
today.”</div>
<p class="byline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">– Noah
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Jeffries’ group biography of the Frankfurt School
underscores just how much has changed in the climate of
intellectual debate over the past century….Jeffries has
emerged from his research and writing as a bit of a
critical theorist himself.”</div>
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