Abstract
One of the most interesting aspects of Adorno’s critical theory, which makes it significant even today, lies in the fact that, from his point of view, the totalitarian nightmare that took shape in twentieth-century dictatorships was not at all dismantled together with them, but remains a risk and a threat even in contemporary democratic mass society. The Frankfurt thinker’s basic thesis, which is somewhat reminiscent of Tocqueville, is that in contemporary mass society, individuals become the object of new and effective practices of communication and of pressures that are widely able to shape their ways of life, their mental attitudes, and their political behavior.
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