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

Summary

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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• Authors: Anthony Curtis Adler, Associate Professor of German & Comparative Adler
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780823270798
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7079-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Idiom Inventing Writing Theory FUP; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theor
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day