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The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture

By Adorno , J M , Theodor W;Bernstein

Book information

Publisher
Routledge; Taylor and Francis
ISBN
0203996062, 9780203996065
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
890 kB (911587 bytes)
Series
Routledge classics
Pages
219\219
Time added
2020-11-29 04:15:59
Philosophy;Nonfiction;Sociology;Theory;Art;Cultura

Description

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture industry commodified and standardized all art. In turn this suffocated individuality and destroyed critical thinking. At the time, Adorno was accused of everything from overreaction to deranged hysteria by his many detractors. In today's world, where even the least cynical of consumers is aware of the influence of the media, Adorno's work takes on a more immediate significance. The Culture Industry is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture.

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