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The whole is the falseIn a culture that values convenience and pleasure above everything else, one task of the philosopher is to sow dissonance and make us face despair. And just in case you thought you were going to enjoy yourself today, here comes Theodor Adorno to put a damper on that plan.But then one might also wonder if this despair isnt itself a kind of luxury, a dandified pose. Lucakcs made one of the great intellectual disses of all time when he accused Adorno and his critical theorist confreres of taking up residence in the grand hotel abyss.By using this phrase as his title, Stuart Jeffries is recognizing the mixed legacy of the Frankfurt School. Marxists who seemed to give up on the proletariat and spent much of their time theorizing about the stupidity of the masses. Radicals who held themselves utterly aloof from the society they were supposedly trying to save. Jeffriess new book is marvelously alive to these tensions and paradoxes. Highly recommended. Id definitely call it a page turner. *Some impressions on the major players:-Adorno. The crux of it all. Im inclined to say Critical Theory stand or falls with him. Personally Ive never been able to make my mind up completely about this guy. He is at once eternally seductive and often extremely frustrating to read. Many of his writings on pop culture now seem downright embarrassing - as far as I know, no one is willing to defend his views on jazz today. At the same time, undoubtedly he was on to something with what he called the culture industry. Who could deny the awful, gnawing emptiness of our culture. Pop culture, first and foremost, is propaganda for emptiness.Adorno was also just a great writer. Witness the snarling hatred of Minima Moralia, vivifying rage ripping through veils of illusion. This is true even when the target of his ragegrows obscure. The force of the revelation remains even when you cant paraphrase what just happened.-Horkheimer. He now mostly seems to be known as Adornos occasional co-author. Nothing in this book made me want to look into him more. If Adornos specific political commitments were often dubious, Horkheimers were just plain awful. Here we see him censoring Benjamin and Habermas, excising references to communism and revolution from their writing. After the war he refused to sign a petition against the Federal Republic acquiring nukes, then more or less banished Habermas from the Institute for signing. But the kicker came in the sixties when he came out in favor of the Vietnam war. At that point you have to wonder in what sense this guy was a leftist at all. Something has gone seriously wrong when you condemn American popular culture in the same breath as Auschwitz but then support the American firebombing of Indochina.-Marcuse. This book contains a moving interview with his protege Angela Davis. Much more than Adorno, he took the radicals of the sixties seriously and tried to be their ally. Sounds as if he did an honorable job navigating the sometimes obnoxious behavior of the students in light of the real criminality of US cold war policy... Still, my gut feeling is that as a writer or thinker he wasnt near the stature of Adorno. A lot of his ideas now sound like dated radical chic. -Habermas. I was used to thinking of him as a boring old pillar of the establishment, so its a bit of a surprise to find a portrait of him here as a principled young leftist... From a theoretical perspective, I think he was entirely right to revise Adorno and Horkheimers account of enlightenment reason as a monolithic conspiracy stretching back to the mists of time. By positing domination as so total and without remainder, a seemingly radical theory may actually a form of quietism. On the other hand, Habermass great ideals of communication and consensus can easily become quite vacuous. What if the only thing people have to talk about and agree on is their own emptiness? -Benjamin. Though he was a close friend and influence on Adorno, his connections with the institute were actually quite tangential. Id put him in his own category. As a writer, he was even greater than Adorno. Various attempts to turn his work into a school of thought will always ring a bit hollow. Benjamin was a singular genius - poet, mystic, philosopher Jeffriess appropriately pays tribute to the mystery; thats all one really can do.
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