Understand the Critical Theory of Frankfurt School's Mass Culture Correctly
Yan Bao
Abstract
Yan Bao
Abstract
The Frankfurt school is the representative school of Western Marxism in the 20th century,whose critical theory arouses gigantic echo in western thought field,and has far-reaching theoretical significance.Mass culture critical theory is the main part of Frankfurt school's critical thinking on bourgeois ideology.It also proves to be the most radical and severe one among the western mass culture critical theories.We should analyze its critical theory dialectically by absorbing its reasonable ingredient so as to make it a theoretical reference for the development of the culture and art in China.
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The Frankfurt school is the representative school of Western Marxism in the 20th century,whose critical theory arouses gigantic echo in western thought field,and has far-reaching theoretical significance.Mass culture critical theory is the main part of Frankfurt school's critical thinking on bourgeois ideology.It also proves to be the most radical and severe one among the western mass culture critical theories.We should analyze its critical theory dialectically by absorbing its reasonable ingredient so as to make it a theoretical reference for the development of the culture and art in China.
Key concepts: Ideology, Critical theory, Mass culture, Bourgeoisie, Critical mass (sociodynamics), Sociology, Culture industry, Western culture