The Pathology of Mourning from the Analytical Viewpoint of the Adorno Culture Industry and Its Policy Making

Document Type : The Quarterly Jornal

Authors

1 Associate professor of Baqir al-olum University

2 Ph.D. student of cultural policymaking, Baqir al-olum University

Abstract

The current paper seeks to explain Adorno's critical attitude on modern art which is popular and out of content, through an analytical methodology approach after explaining the critical theory of Adorno culture industry and defining related terms such as individuality and domination and features of popular music from his viewpoint including standardization and virtual individuality. Then, in addition to describing the style change between recent traditional and pop eulogies, he compared it to popular music and responded to the two hypotheses of existence and non-existence of the relationship between the new style of eulogy and the culture industry, and finally he presented strategies for harm elimination of eulogy such as educational (training for eulogers, preachers and managers), research (including providing a reputable scientific and historical resource, providing appropriate poetry and books and educational journals, accurate problems delimitation and constant harm explication and explaining the features of ideal mourning congregations), supervisory, supportive, and promotional

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