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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 306.40904 EAN: 9780415253802 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0415253802 Label: Routledge Manufacturer: Routledge Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: May 30, 2001 Publisher: Routledge Studio: Routledge Related Items:
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 Rating:  - ChallengingThis collection of essays is very interesting. They all cover a critique of mass culture with quite original and interesting points made. Sometimes it is bit difficult to read, this might be due to the translation; for this reason it gets only 4 stars. However, if you think you are ok with a moderately complicated text, the book is really great. I am glad I have read it. Rating:  - The Critique of Mass-Culture Par ExcellenceIn our banal age when sanctimonious platitude is often mistaken for wisdom or even ethical character, Adorno's mercilessly uncompromising analyses of the controlling nature of mass culture may initially strike some of us as exaggerated or hysterical initially. After all most of us now bear the consequence of lengthy habituation to our socio-economic situation: a chronic semi-conscious, autopilot behavioral and perceptive mode that can comprehend only the pre-digested, repetitive ideas or ways of ... Read More Rating: - Remarkably insightful, yet a little too big on modern art ...The title of this review says much of it. Several essays in this book are dated in their literal forms, but your mind will take the ideas Adorno gives and apply them to your own experience. I don't know about ya'll, but I've found many of my new sensibilities about one thing while reading or otherwise interacting about something I would have considered entirely separated from the other. My advice: read the intro twice: once through quickly and a second slowly and thoroughly; though I ... Read More 
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