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The Frankfurt School: Critical Theory as the Negation of Culture.
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James, Beverly – 1983
In examining the Frankfurt School's critical theory of society in an effort to discover the theoretical basis for the school's inability to merge theory with praxis, this paper points out that the school's analysis of culture in the 1930s and 1940s presents a radical, penetrating critique of the role of mass communication in advanced…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Industrialization, Mass Media, Revolution