Welcome to Bookmarker!

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

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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noumenal

history is not the simple unfolding of some preordained noumenal realm and that existence is therefore ‘ontologically incomplete’

Adorno, who else

—p.101 Part II: The 1920s (65) by Stuart Jeffries
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chthonic

between the chthonic force of Beethoven and the fissured landscapes of Schubert

—p.100 Part II: The 1920s (65) by Stuart Jeffries
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propitiousness

much of Grossman’s work was directed against those who thought that the revolution could be successfully launched irrespective of the propitiousness of the circumstances

—p.91 Part II: The 1920s (65) by Stuart Jeffries
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hypostatisation

Hypostatisation, a term that runs through Frankfurt School writing like a thread, refers to an effect of reification which results from the fallacy of supposing that whatever can be named, or conceived abstractly, must actually exist

—p.87 Part II: The 1920s (65) by Stuart Jeffries
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fatuous

Through that gap came the corrupting flood of commodities. Here comes one now: it’s Apple launching a fatuous new iPhone minimally different from its predecessor.

—p.85 Part II: The 1920s (65) by Stuart Jeffries
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