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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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aspic

the positivists – at least those whom Horkheimer characterised thus – suspended facts in aspic and falsely eternalised the status quo

—p.145 Part III: The 1930s (123) by Stuart Jeffries
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synoptic

Horkheimer’s vision in his inaugural lecture was that philosophy should open up a synoptic, critical view of human life that empirical research and interdisciplinary work might fill in

—p.140 Part III: The 1930s (123) by Stuart Jeffries
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petite bourgeoisie

Adorno and Horkheimer returned the abuse: they regarded Brecht as a petit-bourgeois poseur and apologist for Stalinism

—p.135 Part III: The 1930s (123) by Stuart Jeffries
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scabrous

the Institute for Social Research as it evolved in the 1930s. It was Brechtian in its inverse relationship between scabrous critique and changing that which it critiqued

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—p.135 Part III: The 1930s (123) by Stuart Jeffries
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libretto

Brecht’s libretto, too, sought to make it clear that the bourgeois world was absurd and anarchic.

—p.132 Part III: The 1930s (123) by Stuart Jeffries
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