TY - BOOK AU - Jeffries,Stuart TI - Grand Hotel Abyss: the lives of the Frankfurt School SN - 9781784785680 (hbk) AV - HM 467 J47g 2016 U1 - 301.01 PY - 2016/// CY - London, New York PB - Verso, an imprint of New Left Books KW - Frankfurt school of sociology KW - History KW - Critical theory KW - 20th century KW - Teoría crítica KW - Historia KW - Siglo XX KW - Biography KW - Escuela de sociología de Frankfurt KW - Sociologists KW - Germany KW - Sociólogos KW - Alemania KW - Philosophers KW - Filósofos KW - Biografías KW - Sociology KW - Sociología KW - Intellectual life KW - Vida intelectual N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-428) and index; 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 N2 - "Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the Frankfurt School"-- ER -