An Inherent Logic of Western Marxism′s Culture Criticism——Horkheimer and Adorno′s Criticism of Instrumental Rationality

Horkheimer and Adorno noted that the mass consciousness was manipulated and revolutionary class consciousness could not be formed when mass culture was popular.Thus,they studied the concept as the views of criticism of culture from the source of human civilization.Based on the generalization and reconstruction of Lukacs' reification concept,they proposed a critique of instrumental rationality with which an inherent logic of establishing the criticism of western cultural subjectivity in the concept of Weber's instrumental rationality.Combining characteristics of the late capitalism and modern industrial society,in the perspective of instrumental rationality,they developed their critique of western cultural subjectivity and put forward criticism of technology and mass culture,with the result that they established the turning of western Marxism's culture criticism.