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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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I can’t possibly read his books by next week

[...] When Jean-Paul Sartre and Marcuse arranged to meet at the Coupole in Paris in the late 1960s, Sartre worried how he could get through lunch without revealing the truth. ‘I have never read a word Marcuse has written’, he told his future biographer John Gerassi. ‘I know he has tried to link Mar…

—p.324 Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School Part VI: The 1960s (301) by Stuart Jeffries
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to negate the truth of the existing order

Frankfurt School critical theory was not supposed to be like this. Critical theory had something built into it akin to the Jewish taboo on calling God by his name: to do so would be premature since we are not yet in the messianic age. Similarly for critical theory, setting out a utopian vision woul…

—p.323 Part VI: The 1960s (301) by Stuart Jeffries
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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