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In this post, Scott Alexander reviews The Dialectical Imagination as a way into the strange, slippery world of the Frankfurt School: its origins, its relationship to Marxism, its suspicion of capitalism and mass culture, and its insistence that criticism itself can be a kind of philosophical work. The piece is a witty, sceptical, and surprisingly sympathetic attempt to understand a school of thought often discussed through caricature, conspiracy, or second-hand reputation, asking what its members really believed, why they were so hard to pin down, and whether their ideas still echo through modern culture.
* 00:00 - Introduction
* 03:58 - Now The Wheels Of Heaven Stop, I Feel The Devil’s Riding Crop
* 09:47 - Papua New Guinea As Hot New Startup Hub
* 12:05 - Marxism-Lurianism Will Win
* 15:33 - If You Seek It, You Are Turning Away From It
* 21:25 - The Structure Of Unscientific Revolutions
* 24:26 - But Why Art Criticism?
* 36:05 - In Partial, Grudging Praise Of Herbert Marcuse
* 40:10 - Pessimism Of The Intellect, Pessimism Of The Will
* 49:54 - Did The Frankfurt School Cause Everything You Hate, And Should You Blame The Jews?
https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/book-review-the-dialectical-imagination?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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In this post, Scott Alexander reviews The Dialectical Imagination as a way into the strange, slippery world of the Frankfurt School: its origins, its relationship to Marxism, its suspicion of capitalism and mass culture, and its insistence that criticism itself can be a kind of philosophical work. The piece is a witty, sceptical, and surprisingly sympathetic attempt to understand a school of thought often discussed through caricature, conspiracy, or second-hand reputation, asking what its members really believed, why they were so hard to pin down, and whether their ideas still echo through modern culture.
* 00:00 - Introduction
* 03:58 - Now The Wheels Of Heaven Stop, I Feel The Devil’s Riding Crop
* 09:47 - Papua New Guinea As Hot New Startup Hub
* 12:05 - Marxism-Lurianism Will Win
* 15:33 - If You Seek It, You Are Turning Away From It
* 21:25 - The Structure Of Unscientific Revolutions
* 24:26 - But Why Art Criticism?
* 36:05 - In Partial, Grudging Praise Of Herbert Marcuse
* 40:10 - Pessimism Of The Intellect, Pessimism Of The Will
* 49:54 - Did The Frankfurt School Cause Everything You Hate, And Should You Blame The Jews?
https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/book-review-the-dialectical-imagination?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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