Celebricities - Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life

A phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism--including television, celebrity culture, and personal electronics--culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commodity that brings together Marxist theories of commodity fetishism and ideology with Heidegger's attempt to think truth as unconcealment.

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Anthony Curtis Adler

Zusammenfassung

A phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism--including television, celebrity culture, and personal electronics--culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commodity that brings together Marxist theories of commodity fetishism and ideology with Heidegger's attempt to think truth as unconcealment.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anthony Curtis Adler, Associate Professor of German & Comparative Adler
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780823270798
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7079-8
• Seiten: 264
• Serien: Idiom Inventing Writing Theory FUP; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theor
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Antike bis Gegenwart