OODOC RECHERCHE & PUBLICATION DE DOCUMENTS

    Votre panier

    Accéder

    3

    Docs en anglais
    publié le 28/07/2010

    3,60 €

    Blues and the Frankfurt School's thought

    Document de 3 pages au format WORD

    RÉSUMÉ

    English presentation about the Blues and the Frankfurt School of thought.

    AUTRES

    Extract:

    The idea of “cultural industry” was first widely used as a concept by Adorno and Horkheimer in Dialectic of Enlightenment . As for them, the “instrumental rationality” which had become dominant within European thought since the Enlightenment is the historical origin of the cultural industry. They were concerned about a type of reasoning through which groups and individuals were encouraged to pursue particular aims in a “logical” and calculated way “untouched by sentiment”. They argued that this had resulted in a type of science which sought to dominate and subordinate the natural world. The instrumental approach to ends had also led to “exploitative relationships” between human beings; this was particularly noticeable in the relationship between employers and workers.
    The development of 1940s European thought, instead of enabling the development of a more enlightened and liberated society, was leading to what they called “ a new kind of barbarism”: the
    instrumentalist approach to the world.
    The link with our subject is clear, they adopted the term “cultural industry” to argue that the way in which cultural items were produced was analogous to how other industries manufactured vast quantities of goods: the major aim is profit making, and there is the same rationalized organizational procedures which lead to a standardized creation (...)

    Table of contents:

    Introduction

    I) Presentation of Adorno and Horkheimer's analysis
    II) A critique analysis of the Blues with Frankfurt's school philosophy

    Conclusion

    3

    Docs en anglais publié le 28/07/2010

    3,60 €

    Recommandations

    Du même auteur

    Voir toutes les publications de cet auteur

    Nouveautés en Docs en anglais

    Aller à la catégorie

    Les plus consultées

    • Marketing Study including SWOT analysis: Coca Cola

      1,80 €

      2.5

      Docs en anglais publié le 28/06/2010

      Descriptif

      History, background and reasons for the huge international success of Coca Cola. Extrait: Today, we will talk about a famous beverage, or we can say that it is more like a common phenomenon. If you are recognized as...

    • Le cas de la fusion Renault/Nissan

      1,80 €

      10

      Docs en anglais publié le 05/03/2006

      Descriptif

      Cette présentation de type PowerPoint réalisée en anglais étudie les problèmes organisationnels, structurels, culturels et stratégiques soulevés par les fusions des deux groupes Renault et Nissan, et les actions...

    • Essay: Number Eight, by Jack Richie

      3,60 €

      2.5

      Docs en anglais publié le 13/12/2007

      Descriptif

      Essay dealing with "Number 8", a short story written by Jack Ritchie. The first part introduces the two main characters: a mysterious narrator who is driving a car, and a young hitch hiker he picked up on the road. The setting is disconcerting: they...

    Accès membre

    Votre panier

    Derniers vus

    Publier vos documents

     

    Charte qualité

    déplier