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ISBN: | 1933128267 (pbk.) 9781933128269 (pbk.)
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary: | "In this is a book-length essay, art critic and historian Sven Lutticken takes philosopher Theodor Adorno's critique of popular arts and culture a step further. Adorno criticized the manipulation of taste in official cultures and the pretense of individualism; Lutticken looks at the tension between fundamentalism and individualism in the context of the current religious-political image wars. This book examines both the afterlife of religious elements in modern culture and possible responses to the current religious re-appropriation of Adorno's critique of modern capitalist culture by both Christian fundamentalists and radical Islamists... "
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Other form: | Online version: Lütticken, Sven. Idols of the market. Berlin ; New York : Sternberg Press, c2009
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