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Culture, Class, and Critical Theory - Between Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School (Hardcover)
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Culture, Class, and Critical Theory - Between Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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Culture, Class, and Critical Theory develops a theory of culture
that explains how ideas create and legitimate class inequalities in
modern society. This theory is developed through a critique and
comparison of the powerful ideas on culture offered by Pierre
Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School thinkers, especially Theodor
Adorno. These ideas are illuminated and criticized through the
development of two empirical cases on which Gartman has published
extensively, automobile design and architecture. Bourdieu and the
Frankfurt School postulate opposite theories of the cultural
legitimation of class inequalities. Bourdieu argues that the
culture of modern society is a class culture, a ranked diversity of
beliefs and tastes corresponding to different classes. The cultural
beliefs and practices of the dominant class are arbitrarily defined
as superior, thus legitimating its greater share of social
resources. By contrast, the thinkers of the Frankfurt School
conceive of modern culture as a mass culture, a leveled homogeneity
in which the ideas and tastes shared by all classes disguises real
class inequalities. This creates the illusion of an egalitarian
democracy that prevents inequalities from being contested. Through
an empirical assessment of the theories against the cases, Gartman
reveals that both are correct, but for different parts of modern
culture. These parts combine to provide a strong legitimation of
class inequalities.
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