文化与启蒙——阿多诺的辩证文化观念

一般认为,阿多诺的文化工业批判就是其文化批判的全部,但事实上,阿多诺的文化批判还包括对德国古典唯心主义文化观的批判.康德以来的德国唯心主义往往将文化作为纯粹的、完全独立于物质世界的精神存在,认为文化是与物质相比具有真正自由属性的领域.马克思在认同文化的自由属性的同时,强调文化以物质生产为前提.阿多诺继承了马克思的这一文化观念,并将其运用于对当代文化工业的批判之中.

Culture and Enlightenment——Dialectical Concept of Culture of Adorno

Generally,Adorno's critique of cultural industry is regarded as the whole of his cultural critique.In fact,his cultural critique also includes the criticism of German classical idealist cultural concept.Idealism since Kant regards culture as pure spiritual entity totally independent from material world,and attributes culture into the field with real free property compared with material.Marx emphasizes material production as the premise of culture with the acknowledgement of free property of culture.Adorno i...