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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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the Frankfurt School origin story

[...] The Marxist Jewish intellectual son was once more standing against the capitalistic values by means of which his businessman father had achieved material success. And yet, once more, that son was dependent on daddy’s money in order for him to fulfil his manifest destiny – to castigate the eco…

—p.75 Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School Part II: The 1920s (65) by Stuart Jeffries
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father–son tensions

If Freud had lived and carried on his inquiries in a country and language other than the German-Jewish milieu which supplied his patients’, wrote the philosopher Hannah Arendt, ‘we might never have heard of an Oedipus complex.’ What she meant is that thanks to the father–son tensions unleashed by t…

—p.33 Part I: 1900-1920 (13) by Stuart Jeffries
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even though they see through them

[...] Humans had been transformed into desirable, readily exchangeable, commodities, and all that was left to choose was the option of knowing that one was being manipulated. ‘The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though…

—p.10 Introduction: Against the Current (1) by Stuart Jeffries