Grand Hotel "Abyss". Biography of the Frankfurt School

The book of Stuart Jeffris (b. 1962) is an attempt to write a panoramic story of the Frankfurt school.
The Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt, founded between the two world wars, largely determined not only the content of modern social and humanities, but also the appearance of current Western universities, social movements and political discourse. Such concepts as "alienation", "one -dimensional society" and "critical theory" along with the names of Benjamin, Adorno and Marcuse have long been the property of not only the history of ideas, but also a popular culture. Starting its narrative by the time of horse trams and airships and ending with the OcCupy Wall Street and social media era, the author offers a fascinating and popular introduction to the history of one of the most significant intellectual phenomena of the 20th century