The Cost of Popularity - A Study of the Frankfurt School's Theoretical Research on Mass Culture Criticism

Author: You Zhansheng
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: The term "frontier" does not merely manifest in fashionable theoretical topics and avant-garde research methods. In fact, the fundamental questions of literary and artistic studies are precisely those eternal and ever-renewing issues that capture the attention and spark the curiosity of every era, such as "representation," "expression," "form," "structure," "understanding," and "meaning." In the context of contemporary aesthetic culture, reinterpreting these issues to meet the demands of the times and thereby enrich and refine people's aesthetic concepts of contemporary cultural and artistic arts, aligning them with the overall pace of human cultural development, and using the foresight of theory itself to predict and guide future directions—this is the true essence of what we understand by the "frontier" significance of theory. In summary, closely grasping the frontier topics of literary and artistic studies theory, and building a contemporary literary and artistic studies theoretical system through comprehensive innovation, is the goal and purpose set for themselves by the researchers of this book series.