Adorno on Popular Culture (International Library of Sociology)
Adorno on Popular Culture (International Library of Sociology)
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Book Description
In the decades since his death, Adorno's thinking has lost none of its capacity to unsettle the settled, and has proved hugely influential in social and cultural thought. To most people, the entertainment provided by television, radio, film, newspapers, astrology charts and CD players seem harmless enough. For Adorno, however, the culture industry that produces them is ultimately toxic in its effect on the social process.
Here, Robert Witkin unpacks Adorno's notoriously difficult critique of popular culture in an engaging and accessible style, looking first at the development of the overarching theories of authority, commodification and negative dialectics within which Adorno's work needs to be seen. This book is an essential guide for understanding one of the key thinkers of our time.
About the Author
Robert Wilkin teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of Exeter and is the author of Adorno on Music (Roultedge, 1994).
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