Frankfurt School on Popular Culture
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Have a little read: ... BA Social Sciences Student Number: 022918 Tutor: Iain McColl Belief, Culture & Community Critically assess the Frankfurt School's views of popular culture Critically assess the Frankfurt School's views on popular culture The Frankfurt School originated as a set of ideas from a group of left wing neo-Marxist intellectuals during 1930s Germany. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, together with Walter Benjamin and Herbert Marcuse sought to expand, develop and radically revise much of Marxist thought into what was later to become Critical Theory. Having been exiled to the United States following the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany, the group witnessed first hand a successful capitalist society in the making. The American economy was booming and popular culture appeared to be at the heart of its success. For the Frankfurt School it was popular culture, or to use their phrase, the "Culture Industry", seeing culture inextricably linked with the economy, that played a highly manipulative role in
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