Grand Hotel Abyss (Jeffries) Review

[@BuffOrpington7]

As a non-academic reader, with only a very basic knowledge of philosophy, I found this book fascinating. I had to read and reread certain passages - it was hard getting my head around the concept of the dialectic image - but the author explained the ideas with great lucidity. It's a wonderful, occasionally amusing, broad brush survey that has the authority that comes with exhaustive research.

[@CourtneyFerriter]

The book sounds quite interesting. Even though I'm an academic myself and I've read some of Walter Benjamin's essays, I don't know much about The Frankfurt School (although I have a fairly good grounding in the historical context of Europe in the 1920s/30s).

[@JoelWentz]

I learned quite a bit from it! You would probably enjoy the sections on Benjamin especially, since they put his writings in the context of his life.

[@interestedpart2650]

Excellent

[@mcginnpiano]

Have you read (done a video for) Jeffries new book?