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Book Summary of The Culture Industry
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`s out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights in to 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 by his many detractors of everything from overreaction to deranged hysteria. In today`s world, where the least cynical of consumers is aware of the influence of the media, Adorno`s works takes on a more immediate significance, The Culture Industry is an unrivalled indictment of banality of mass culture.
About the Author
Theodore W. Adorno (1903-69), one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, and a leading member of the influential group of critical theorists known as the Frankfurt school. His works include Aesthetic Theory. Mahler, the Jargon of Authenticity and Negative Dialectics.
Table of Contents
On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening
The Schema of Mass Culture
Culture Industry Reconsidered
Culture and Administration
Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda
How to Look at Television
Transparencies on Film
Free Time
Resignation. isbn
9780415253802
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Pages : 224
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