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Ladataan... Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2016; vuoden 2017 painos)Tekijä: Stuart Jeffries (Tekijä)
TeostiedotGrand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School (tekijä: Stuart Jeffries) (2016)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2019-08.html#jeffries-on-frankfurt ( ) I agree with the other reviewers who note this book's strength's and flaws. I'd add that this book is painfully androcentric. For instance, in the first chapter, women belonging to men as sexual property is unproblematically mentioned and unexamined (39). Later, the author points out how odd it is that there were no prominent Franfurt School women theorists, but concludes that it's fine: a paragraph in Adorno is feminist enough (234-5). Find an intersectional book on the Frankfurt School. This one is so limited as to be near-worthless. A clearly written and very informative history of the Frankfurt School and its thinkers. Most of my exposure to the Frankfurt School authors has been through the writings of Walter Benjamin, but Grand Hotel Abyss provides a head start in understanding the writings and theories of the other players. Very much recommended if you are interested in this fascinating slice of history, especially since so much of what the Frankfurt writers had to contend with politically at the time is now, in 2017, so completely timely. A good popular summary of the guiding lights of the Frankfurt School. There are passages of excellent summary, such as exergeceses on Walter Benjamin's work, that are interspersed with longueurs that use biography to explain philosophy. For all that, I can't think of a better entry point into the thought and contradictions of this group.
Marx’s account of ideology or “false consciousness” is his most enduring legacy in the West. It provides the intellectual foundations for the work of the Marxists who founded the Frankfurt School in the 1920s and continued developing it until the 1970s. They provided the basis for what is called “critical theory,” which, drawing on Marxist and Freudian ideas, emphasizes the underlying, often hidden forces that determine the shape of culture. The three books reviewed here survey the lives and ideas of the most famous members of the Frankfurt School.
Who were the Frankfurt School--Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer--and why do they matter today? 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. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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