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Guardian writer Jeffries blends wit, insight, and critical sympathy in this group biography of philosophy's Frankfurt School—predominantly German, Jewish, Marxist, middle-class intellectuals who decried capitalism's commodification of culture but felt impotent to defeat it. These individuals—almost all men—were a colorful company: brilliant pessimist Theodor Adorno, radical Herbert Marcuse, street-fighting Henryk Grossman, liberal Jürgen Habermas, Proustian...Log In or Sign Up to Read More