The Cost of Popularity (A Study of the Frankfurt School's Theoretical Critique of Mass Culture)

Author: You Zhansheng
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Features: The term "frontier" does not merely manifest in fashionable theoretical topics and avant-garde research methods. In reality, the fundamental questions of literary and artistic studies are precisely those eternal and timeless issues that capture people's attention and inspire their exploration in every era, such as "representation," "expression," "form," "structure," "understanding," and "meaning." In the context of contemporary aesthetic culture, to reinterpret these issues in ways that meet the demands of the times, and thereby enrich and refine people's contemporary aesthetic concepts of cultural and artistic works, align them with the overall pace of human cultural development, and predict and guide future directions through the forward-looking nature of theory itself—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 by the researchers of this series for themselves.