Abstract
"In this paper, I will focus primarily on the cultural criticism of Theodor W. Adorno. Based on the works On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening and The Culture Industry, a chapter of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, I outline Adorno’s aesthetic views and the social-critical conclusions that emerge from them. In the second part of my paper, I examine an essay by Hans Magnus Enzensberger titled The Consciousness Industry, which essentially seeks to develop Adorno’s concept of the “culture industry” employing various shifts of emphasis and conceptual innovations. Finally, the conclusion points out that the shaping of social consciousness should be understood as a critical-aesthetic practice that, through the denial of the established, the expansion of the limits of the imaginable, the suspension of the evidences of the present, and the perception of everyday, natural experiences as peculiar or outstanding phenomena, is capable of the cultural-political emancipation of the individual."
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