LoginThe Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture (Routledge Classics) (Volume 20)
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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
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Manufacturer: Routledge
Release date: 1 June 2001
ISBN-10 : 0415253802 | ISBN-13: 9780415253802
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