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.
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Some of them, forced to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany, later found sanctuary in the United States.
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
