A book by Stuart Jeffries is named after the claim that the Frankfurt School was located on the edge of one of these places. For 10 points each:
[10e] A György Lukács (“jorj LOO-kotch”) preface to Theory of the Novel imagined a “Grand Hotel” next to what kind of place? According to a Nietzsche aphorism, if one stares into one of these places for long enough, it stares back.
ANSWER: abyss [or Grand Hotel Abyss; accept Abgrund]
[10h] Lukács’s preface notes how this thinker ironically cited Theory of the Novel in a polemic against Lukács. This thinker examined utopian ideas in art and literature in his book The Principle of Hope.
ANSWER: Ernst Bloch
[10m] Lukács also wrote a book titled History and [this concept], which argues it was not articulated until the rise of capitalism. Marx wrote that commodity fetishism promoted the “false” counterpart to this concept.
ANSWER: class consciousness [prompt on consciousness]
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