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Habermas and Heidegger

After the war, Habermas enrolled at the University of Bonn, later also studying philosophy at Göttingen and Zurich. Between 1949 and 1953, he spent four years studying Heidegger, so his letter to the philosopher was freighted with symbolic resonances. A young intellectual was calling out his older …

—p.268 Part V: The 1950s (259) by Stuart Jeffries
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there were no Nazis any more

That was one of the problems with the Germany to which he and Horkheimer returned: there were no Nazis any more. The returning exiles found their homeland in a state of mass denial. When Horkheimer visited Frankfurt in 1948 to discuss with the university authorities the possibility of re-establishi…

—p.265 Part V: The 1950s (259) by Stuart Jeffries
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a kind of Sisyphean hell

[...] ‘Once a formula was successful, the industry plugged the same thing over and over again. The result was to make music into a kind of social cement operating through distraction, displaced wish-fulfillment, and the intensification of passivity.’ In this, you might well think, Adorno was presci…

—p.206 Part III: The 1930s (123) by Stuart Jeffries