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The Stars Down to Earth

By Theodor Adorno , Stephen Crook

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2001
ISBN
0415270995, 9780415270991
Open Library ID
OL7489401M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
895 kB (916576 bytes)
Series
Routledge Classics
Edition
2
Pages
248\249
Topic
Geology
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles provided by each of these three essays to showcase the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with consumption. He engages with some of his most enduring themes in this seminal collection, focussing on the irrational in mass culture - from astrology to new age cults, from anti-semitism to the power of neo-fascist propaganda. He points out that the modern state and market forces serve the interest of capital in its basic form. Stephan Crook's introduction grounds Adorno's arguments firmly in the present where extreme religious and political organizations are commonplace - so commonplace in fact that often we deem them unworthy of our attention. Half a century ago Theodore Adorno not only recognised the dangers, but proclaimed them loudly. We did not listen then. Maybe it is not too late to listen now.

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