Ebook: In the Hotel Abyss: an Hegelian-Marxist Critique of Adorno

This book is an analysis of a selection of Adorno's work distinguishing his dialectics from Hegel, Marx and other members of the Frankfurt School (Benjamin, Kracauer, Marcuse) in the analysis of jazz, popular music, radio and pre-war pro-fascist propaganda.;In the Hotel Abyss; Copyright; Contents; 1Introduction; Background and Context; The Orientation of the Present Study; Theory and Practice; The Management of Politics and Personal Relations; The Socio-Historical Context; 2Hegel, Marx, Dialectics; The Individual; Being and Self-consciousness; Becoming; Contradiction; A Note on Dialectical Logic; Mediation; 3Aspects of Adorno's Method: Constellations and Images; Adorno's Bilderverbot and the Negation of Messianism; 4Jazz, Radio and the Masses; The Masses and the Culture Industries; The Jazz Essays; Marx, Music and Relative Autonomy.