Theodor Adorno

Adorno, Theodor

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On Pop Music - Theodor Adorno

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Theodor W. Adorno

On Popular Music

With the assistance and collaboration of George Simpson

Negative Dialectics

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Negative Dialectics
By Theodor Adorno
Suhrkamp Verlag 1970 Frankfurt am Main
Original text is copyright 1997 by Suhrkamp Verlag.
The text of this translation is copyright 2001 Dennis Redmond

Dialectic of Enlightenment

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Theodor W. Adorno / Max Horkheimer

Dialectic of Enlightenment

The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

Culture Industry Reconsidered

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Theodor W. Adorno

Culture Industry Reconsidered

The term culture industry was perhaps used for the first time in the book Dialectic of Enlightenment, which Horkheimer and I published in Amsterdam in 1947. In our drafts we spoke of 'mass culture'. We replaced that expression with 'culture industry' in order to exclude from the outset the interpretation agreeable to its advocates: that it is a matter of something like a culture that arises spontaneously from the masses themselves, the contemporary form of popular art. From the latter the culture industry must be distinguished in the extreme.