Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Anti-Capitalist Critique of Mass Culture
The author says he purposely chose the culture industry and not mass culture as their operative phrase. He also thought the word industry in particular should bring across the anti-capitalist critique of mass culture. The book was written by a group of expats who were trying to present a third way between Hitler's Germany and Western capitalism, writes David Frum.
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