Who were the Frankfurt School--Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer--and why do they matter today?Grand Hotel Abyss combines biography, philosophy, and storytelling to reveal how the Frankfurt thinkers--Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer--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 sanctuary in the United States. By taking popular culture seriously as an object of study--whether it was film, music, ideas, or consumerism--the...
Who were the Frankfurt School--Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer--and why do they matter today?Grand Hotel Abyss combines biogr...
Přemýšlet o společnosti a kultuře někdy bolí. Společnost i myslitele. Pokud se někdo zajímá o politiku, společnost a kulturu, musel narazit na slovo neomarxismus. V Česku je často vyslovováno s předsudky - skrývá se však za ním jeden z nejživějších myšlenkových proudů dvacátého století. Jeho nejvýraznější představitelé byli němečtí intelektuálové jako Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno nebo Herbert Marcuse, kteří si před druhou světovou válkou začali všímat, jak rozporuplné dopady mají masová média a kultura na soudobou společnost....
Přemýšlet o společnosti a kultuře někdy bolí. Společnost i myslitele. Pokud se někdo zajímá o politiku, společnost a kulturu, musel nar...
We are living, it is often said, in a golden age of stupidity, in which boneheaded, mendacious politicians get elected by voters who've become too mindless to realise their interests are ill-served by narcissists, while vapid social media influencers corrupt their no-less witless followers with groundless conspiracy theories and eye- wateringly foolish takedowns of scientific expertise. Our time, one might be forgiven for thinking, is one in which the fool's gold of stupidity has become a desirable commodity, a must-have, with bumbling celebrities venerated more than those who have more...
We are living, it is often said, in a golden age of stupidity, in which boneheaded, mendacious politicians get elected by voters who've become too min...
