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This book brings together two of the most important figures of
twentieth-century criticism, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to
consider a topic that was central to their thinking: the place of
and reason for art in society and culture. Thijs Lijster takes us
through points of agreement and disagreement between the two on
such key topics as the relationship between art and historical
experience, between avant-garde art and mass culture, and between
the intellectual and the public. He also addresses the continuing
relevance of Benjamin and Adorno to ongoing debates in contemporary
aesthetics, such as the end of art, the historical meaning of art,
and the role of the critic.
This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary
relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukacs's
concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are
viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the
spectacle, where the world is packaged and presented to consumers
in uniquely mediated ways. Bringing the original, yet now often
forgotten, theoretical contexts for these terms back to the fore,
Johan Hartle and Samir Gandesha offer a new look at the importance
of Western Marxism from its early days to the present moment-and
reveal why Marxist cultural critique must continue to play a vital
role in any serious sociological analysis of contemporary society.
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