Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School: by Stuart Jeffries. London: Verso, 2016. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School: by Stuart Jeffries. London: Verso, 2016. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)
- Main Title:
- Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
- Authors:
- Black, Jack
- Abstract:
- Abstract : This review considers Stuart Jeffries's Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School . Providing a detailed account of the work and lives of the Frankfurt School, Jeffries is commended for his ability to present an illustrative biography of the school's members and associates as well as the variety of topics that their work engaged with. However, while Jefferies manages to merge biography and academic theory in a readable and at times detailed and engaging narrative, such work is undermined by a tendency to focus on the salacious gossip of a group of men whose real-life complications tend to overcome the significance of their arguments. Nevertheless, in view of the Frankfurt School's work, it is suggested that the book's paradoxes can serve as an important opening to contemporary topics and, more importantly, to theorizing these contradictions in light of the Frankfurt School.
- Is Part Of:
- Rethinking Marxism. Volume 31:Issue 4(2019)
- Journal:
- Rethinking Marxism
- Issue:
- Volume 31:Issue 4(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 31, Issue 4 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0031-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 532
- Page End:
- 535
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10-02
- Subjects:
- Consumerism -- Culture -- Dialectic -- Frankfurt School -- Marxism
Communism -- Periodicals
Periodicals
335.4305 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08935696.asp ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/08935696.2019.1650572 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0893-5696
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- Legaldeposit
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