SOC 2312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Max Horkheimer, Frankfurt School, Culture Industry
16 Jan 2020
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Key frankfurt school scholars: theodor adorno (1903-1969, hebert marcuse (1898-1979, max horkheimer (1895-1973, j rgen habermas (1929- ) Reformulation of marxism: analysis of dialectic of enlightenment, how positivism became methodology, role of culture industry, explain ideological & cultural manipulation. Intention to reinterpret marx & critique dogmatic & reductionist interpretations of marxism thus far: alienation & consciousness became central concepts. & thus rationality of political conformity (agger: ideology is imbedded in all aspects of our everyday life. Dialectic of enlightenment: horkheimer & adorno (1972) argue there was an inattention to domination, positing a science & tech of dominating nature, philosophers of the. Enlightenment & subsequent social theorists of modernity who attempted to base social science on the natural sciences turned science itself into a myth (agger: dialectic between myth & enlightenment. Critique of dialectical materialism: legitimation of political passivity, if socialist revolution is inevitable, given certain postulated.
