The Study Of Adorno's Thought On Critique Of Culture Industry

Adorno's critique of culture industry is the important theory resource for contemporary culture research. It has its specific social background, cultural context and logical premise.The administered world,the transition of culture,the Fascism of Germany,the mass culture of America,the Western Marxism,all these constitute the society-culture-logical background of Adorno's thought on critique of culture industry.There are clearly three points consisting Adorno's theory: with the analyzing of schematization of culture industry ,he revealed its anti-enlightenment of fooling most of people, which focusing on the era background of culture industry's existence, he analyzed the mechanism in the level of political and economy theory, which is the combination of commodity passion and the ruling people's ideology. He made use of Freud's psychoanalytic theory, and revealed the secret of psychological manipulation of consumers.According to Adorno's theory, culture industry's commoditization, unitization, cheating, controllabization and the same structure with Fascism are the main envidences for its materization and dissimilation which lead to the tense relationship between culture industry and people.The essential of Adorno's criticism against culture industry is to criticize enlightenment and the rational culture in the current modern society. His critique of culture industry is obviously reasonable, and there are also some limitations.