The Appraisal And Inspiration Of Adorno's Theory On Culture Industry

The culture industry in China is developing very fast. It enriched people's Spiritual life and promoted the Economic to increase swiftly. All the world has changed because of the culture industry's development. But besides the welfare, the culture industry also brought harm to people which included the prevalence of hedonism, the perish of art, the crisis of traditional culture, the individual void and so on. Therefore, how to regard the culture industry became a big topic in the scholars'discussion. The academic circle devoted to solute the question of how to develop the culture industry.As a great master of the Frankfurt School and a representative of Western Marxism, Adorno advanced his theory of culture industry in the mid-20th century. His theory founded on special historical background and special personal experience, so it unavoidably was provided with his subjective thinking. His attitude to the culture industry was negative, thus he wrote books and established theories to criticize the culture industry. He even called out people to resist it. Adorno is the first scholar to propose the concept of"the culture industry", although his theory of culture industry has greatly strengthened one-sidedness, some ideas are reasonable. It can be a important reference for our country to avoide defects and display advantages in the development of the culture industry.This article has Specifically elaborated historical background and main contents of Adorno's culture industry theory. It tried hard to give this theory a dialectical the reasonable appraisal, which not only revealed its one-sidedness and extremalization, but also showed its rationality and influence. And then it elaborated the inspiration of Adorno's culture industry theory to the development of the culture industry in our country. It's main purpose is to avoid all sorts of negative influences in process of the culture industry development as far as possible. To develop the culture industry is the requirement and the trend of of the times.We can't reject the culture industry just because of it's negative effect. The important thing is to promote the culture industry to develop continuously and healthily .Only in this way, the culture industry may really serve our country and people.