The Culture Predicaments Of Materialization Times

Adorno summarizes the predicament of modern culture in a word: "Kulturindustrie", Which imply verdinglichung, marketization, seeing and hearing take, Standardization, etc. He is a pioneer personage for researching modern culture. His views delegate the views of facts and information and even now large quantities of view of people. In his theory, there is sharp analysis to the modern cultural disadvantage, the implacable contradiction exists at the same time.This text has shown his diagnosis to the modern cultural disadvantage, analyze two contradictions of Adorno's theory: First, save the culture of falling into the materialization through the way that artistic. Art is a target of the materialization too, how can save the whole culture? Second, mass culture has already played a ideological role at modern times, he thinks ideology is false, deceive people, but at the same time, Adorno realizes too, ideology plays an irreplaceable role in the society, then, according to idea of him, reveal people's culture behind the false appearance ideology describe, with what to replace the function of ideology.This text thinks, he will present these two theory contradictions, because he has ignored the certainty that mass culture appears and important function in the modern society, so he made a mistake: he wat to solve the provlem by the way of escaping from the mass culture.This text thinks, the rise of mass culture is the result that the nationality and equal idea are rooted in the hearts of the people, have reflected everybody's need for culture. Meanwhile, mass culture to modern soul conciliate, the release of the life plays a positive role, the development of mass culture is not only trend, but also have irreplaceable.