The Frankfurt School
Abstract |
The “Frankfurt School” refers to a group of German-American theorists who developed powerful analyses of the changes in Western capitalist societies that occurred since the classical theory of Marx. Working at the Institut fur Sozialforschung in Frankfurt, Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s, theorists such as Max Horkheimer, T.W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Leo Lowenthal, and Erich Fromm produced some of the first accounts within critical social theory of the importance of mass culture and communication in social reproduction and domination. The Frankfurt School also generated one of the first models of a critical cultural studies that analyzes the processes of cultural production and political economy, the politics of cultural texts, and audience reception and use of cultural artifacts (Kellner 1989 and 1995)
|
Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
No references found.
Citations of this work BETA
No citations found.
Similar books and articles
Critical Theory Today: Revisiting the Classics.Douglas Kellner - 1993 - Theory, Culture and Society 10 (2):43-60.
Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School.John Abromeit - 2011 - Cambridge University Press.
Critical Perspectives on Television From the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism.Douglas Kellner - unknown
The Early Frankfurt School and Religion.Margarete Kohlenbach & Raymond Geuss (eds.) - 2005 - Palgrave-Macmillan.
Political Theory, Critical Theory, and the Place of the Frankfurt School.Dick Howard - 2000 - Critical Horizons 1 (2):271-280.
Cultural Studles and Soclal Theory: A Crltlcal Lnterrentlon.Douglas Kellner - 2001 - In Barry Smart & George Ritzer (eds.), Handbook of Social Theory. Sage Publications. pp. 395.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2009-01-28
Total views
153 ( #76,557 of 2,507,886 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
1 ( #416,715 of 2,507,886 )
2009-01-28
Total views
153 ( #76,557 of 2,507,886 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
1 ( #416,715 of 2,507,886 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads