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picaresque
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

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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synoptic
Philosophy and Social Hope

We are not here to provide principles or foundations or deep theoretical diagnoses, or a synoptic vision.

—p.19 Trotsky and the Wild Orchids (3) by Richard M. Rorty
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abjure

abjure the temptation to tie in one's moral responsibilities to other people with one's relation to whatever idiosyncratic things or persons one loves with all one's heart and soul and mind

—p.13 Trotsky and the Wild Orchids (3) by Richard M. Rorty
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