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In the opening chapters of “Grand Hotel Abyss”— the title derives from philosopher Gyorgi Lukacs’s derogatory description of what he regarded as the Frankfurt School’s radical chic — Jeffries examines the Oedipal rebellion of these often mollycoddled sons against uncomprehending merchant-fathers, who had assimilated German secular culture and frankly disdained working-class East European Jews with their long beards and kaftans. (Siegfried Kracauer — remembered now as a film theorist — wittily remarked that these last “were Jews who looked so authentic, you thought they must be imitations.” ) Naturally, Adorno, Benjamin and their intellectual comrades refused to actually work for a living and instead blithely and incongruously relied on Daddy’s business profits to pay their allowances and fund their anti-capitalist projects.
full: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/grand-hotel-abyss-life-among-the-original-anti-consumerists/2016/09/27/db60f46a-84e3-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html
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