Revisiting the Frankfurt School : essays on culture, media and theory /

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Imprint:Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.
Description:viii, 209 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8834522
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Other authors / contributors:Berry, David, 1960-
ISBN:9781409411802 (hbk. : alk. paper)
140941180X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781409411819 (ebook)
1409411818 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Siegfried Kracauer: critical observations on the discreet charm of the metropolis
  • Walter Benjamin in the intellectual field
  • Just say no: Herbert Marcuse and the politics of negotiationism
  • Max Horkheimer: issues concerning liberalism and culture
  • Theodor Adorno and Dallas Smythe: culture industry/consciousness industry and the political economy of media and communication
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger and the politics of new media technology
  • Jürgen Habermas: the modern media and the public sphere
  • The legacy of Leo Lowenthal: culture and communication
  • On Erich Fromm: why he left the Frankfurt school
  • Index