This book argues for the importance of the theory of the culture industry in today’s world. It begins by considering the neglect of the culture industry in the second and third generation of the Frankfurt School, presenting historical background information and criticisms on the theories of Habermas and Honneth.
In our age, the culture industry is something quite different from what Adorno and Horkheimer described or could even imagine in the twentieth century. Today, the masses can not only access the media but can also respond to the messages they receive. A key question that arises, then, is why the masses, even after gaining access to their own media, still adhere to the values of the capitalist system? Why haven’t they achieved a class consciousness?
Innehållsförteckning
The Frankfurt School: Introduction and Historical Background.- What Happened to the Frankfurt School?.- Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.- Erich Fromm.- Jean Baudrillard.- Theoretical Discussions and Arguments.- The Culture Industry and Consumption as a tool for Communication and Differentiation.- The Culture Industry in Everyday Life.- The Culture Industry in Everyday Life and Mc Donaldization.- The Culture Industry and the Package.- Baudrillard and New Aspects of the Culture Industry in the Media.- The Culture Industry and “the Consumed Vertigo of Catastrophe”.- The Culture Industry in the Age of Simulation.
Om författaren
Amirhosein Khandizaji has a Ph D in sociology from the Free University of Berlin. His main fields of study are the theories of the Frankfurt school and Baudrillard. He is the founder and editor of ’Berlin Journal of Critical Theory’.
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