Back صناعة الثقافة Arabic Mədəniyyət sənayesi Azerbaijani Kulturní průmysl Czech Kulturindustrie – Aufklärung als Massenbetrug German Endustriya kulturele DIQ Industria Cultural Spanish صنعت فرهنگ Persian חרושת התרבות HE Industrija kulture Croatian Industria culturale Italian
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The term culture industry (German: Kulturindustrie) was coined by the critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), and was presented as critical vocabulary in the chapter "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception",[1] of the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), wherein they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods—films, radio programmes, magazines, etc.—that are used to manipulate mass society into passivity.[2] Consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, made available by the mass communications media, renders people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances.[2] The inherent danger of the culture industry is the cultivation of false psychological needs that can only be met and satisfied by the products of capitalism; thus Adorno and Horkheimer perceived mass-produced culture as especially dangerous compared to the more technically and intellectually difficult high arts. In contrast, true psychological needs are freedom, creativity, and genuine happiness, which refer to an earlier demarcation of human needs, established by Herbert Marcuse.[3]
- ^ Adorno, Theodor. "Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ a b Horkheimer & Adorno, p.107
- ^ Marcuse, Herbert (1966). Eros and civilization: a philosophical inquiry into Freud (4. pr. ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-0807015544.