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Other title information: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

Annotation: Who were the Frankfurt School — Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer — and why do they matter today? In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Not only would they change the way we think, but also the subjects we deem worthy of intellectual investigation.Grand Hotel Abyss combines biography, philosophy, and storytelling to reveal how the Frankfurt thinkers gathered in hopes of understanding the politics of culture during the rise of fascism. Some of them, forced to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany, later found exile in the United States. By taking popular culture seriously as an object of study—whether it was film, music, ideas, or consumerism—the Frankfurt School elaborated upon the nature and crisis of our mass-produced, mechanised society. Grand Hotel Abyss shows how much these ideas still tell us about our age of social media and runaway consumption.

Identifier: 9781784785697

Status: Available

Other title information: Philosophical Essays

Notes: edited and introduced by Morris R. Cohen with an essay by John Deely. Reprint from the original 1923 edition by Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. New York.

Annotation: Chance, Love, and Logic contains two books by Charles S. Peirce that are among his most important and widely influential. The first is Illustrations of the Logic of Science. The opening chapters, "The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" mark the beginning of pragmatism. The second presents Peirce's innovative and influential essays on scientific metaphysics.

Identifier: 0803287518

Status: Available

Annotation: Sherlock Holmes, nei racconti di Conan Doyle, parla sovente del suo metodo, e ne parla sempre en termini di "deduzioneL. Da tempo anche i logici i filosofi della scienza, quando discutono del metodo scientifico /ovvero della logica, della scoperta), dedicano sempre alcume rige, e spesso alcune pagine, a Sherlock Holmes, perché si sono resi conto che, seppure en forma narrativa, il celebre detective stava espondendo dei criteri di osservazione e scoperta, che sono affini a quelli del medico che diagnosctica una malattia, dello scienziato che interroga un fenomeno naturale, de filologo che deve prendere una decisione su un testo lacunoso, dello storico che deve ricostruire una situazione del passato sulla base di impresice testimonianze.

Identifier: 8845201449

Status: Available