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bombast
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

Its rage for reinventing itself and erecting very nearly bombastic architecture

Berlin

—p.18 Part I: 1900-1920 (13) by Stuart Jeffries
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excoriating

we still live in a world like the one Frankfurt School excoriated

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

his adult exile from Germany into picaresque vagabondage and tragic death on the run from the Nazis aged forty-eight in 1940

Benjamin, of course :(

—p.15 Part I: 1900-1920 (13) by Stuart Jeffries
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cosset

the cosseted German childhoods of these thinkers as they were raised by and rebelled against their fathers

—p.9 Introduction: Against the Current (1) by Stuart Jeffries
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jeremiad

theory was not reactionary retreat into a Grand Hotel Abyss, but principled withdrawal into a fortress of thought, a citadel from which, periodically, radical jeremiads were issued

for Adorno

—p.4 Introduction: Against the Current (1) by Stuart Jeffries
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