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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Deborah CookPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Dimensions: Width: 19.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.313kg ISBN: 9780847681556ISBN 10: 0847681556 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 01 May 1996 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsThe Sundered Totality - Adorno's Freudo-Marxist Paradigm; Toward a Political Economy of the Culture Industry; Psyche Under Siege - the Psychology of Domination and Resistance; Affirmative Culture and Enlightened Critique; Reassessing the Culture Industry.ReviewsDeborah Cook's study of Adorno and mass culture critically engages one of the most important thinkers of our century. An excellent job in presenting Adorno's complex thought applied to a wide range of issues in contemporary social theory and media criticism. -- Douglas Kellner, UCLA; author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy In sum, the book is a refreshing departure from the frequent tendency to bash and dismiss Adorno without further ado, or the tendency of his followers to simply celebrate him as the greatest theorist of the contemporary moment. Cook's book should thus be of significant use to those interested in Adorno and critical theory, cultural studies and mass communication, and contemporary social theory. Adorno's work itself is transdisciplinary and Cook presents him in a fashion in which he could be of use to a broad transdisciplinary audience Journal Of Communication Adorno's speculative thinking in the service of norms such as freedom, autonomy, and spontaneity serves as a prototype of social and political practice that might overcome the reification and narcissism endemic to contemporary mass culture. Sociological Abstracts Deborah Cook's study of Adorno and mass culture critically engages one of the most important thinkers of our century. An excellent job in presenting Adorno's complex thought applied to a wide range of issues in contemporary social theory and media criticism.--Kellner, Douglas Author InformationDeborah Cook is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor and the author of The Subject Finds a Voice: Foucault's Turn Towards Subjectivity (1993). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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