A cknowledgements I ntroduction -- 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 -- Name I ndex S ubject I ndex
Theodor 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.
'A volume of Adorno's essays is equivalent to a whole shelf of
books on literature.' - Susan Sontag
'Adorno expounds what may be called a new philosophy of
consciousness. His philosophy lives, dangerously but also
fruitfully, in proximity to an ascetic puritanical moral rage, an
attachment to some items in the structure and vocabulary of
Marxism, and a feeling that human suffering is the only important
thing and makes nonsense of everything else ... Adorno is a
political thinker who wishes to bring about radical change. He is
also a philosopher, with a zest for metaphysics, who is at home in
the western philosophical tradition.' - Iris Murdoch
'A highly misanthropic but very funny and true analysis of the
power and effect of the mass media.' - Alain de Botton, Daily
Telegraph
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