Theodor Adorno
Adorno, Theodor
German Marxist intellectual and prominent member of the Frankfurt School covering sociology, philosophy, musicology and politics.
On Pop Music - Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno's critical analysis of popular music in capitalist society.
Theodor W. Adorno
On Popular Music
With the assistance and collaboration of George Simpson
Negative Dialectics
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
Theodor W. Adorno / Max Horkheimer
Dialectic of Enlightenment
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
Culture Industry Reconsidered
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.
