The Culture Industry as Industry of Conscience: The Critical Analysis in the Different Generations of the Theory of the Frankfurt School

Authors

  • Blanca Muñoz Universidad Carlos III, Madrid

Keywords:

cultural industries, Frankfurt School, Critical Theory, social conscience, alienation, reification, fetishism

Abstract

This study analyses the characteristic analysis of one of the key issues of Critical Theory: Cultural Industries. In the Dialectic of Enlightenment Adorno and Horkheimer placed in the middle of the book a chapter that has been one of the early theoretical research on the operation and effects of some industries dedicated to the creation and dissemination of messages and collective representations that, as considered by the new generations of the Frankfurt School, spread ideological strategies with strong processes of social pathologization. In this sense, it is not surprising to identify Cultural Industries as Industries of the Conscience and, specifically, of the Social Conscience.

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Published

2016-02-14

How to Cite

Muñoz, B. (2016). The Culture Industry as Industry of Conscience: The Critical Analysis in the Different Generations of the Theory of the Frankfurt School. Constelaciones. Revista De Teoría Crítica, 3(3), 61–89. Retrieved from https://constelaciones-rtc.net/article/view/749