Idols of the Market
Idols of the Market

Author: Sven Lütticken

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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In this is a book-length essay, art critic and historian Sven Lutticken takes philosopher Theodor Adorno's critique of popular arts and culture a step further. Adorno criticized the manipulation of taste in official cultures and the pretense of individualism; Lutticken looks at the tension between fundamentalism and individualism in the context of the current religious-political image wars. This book examines both the afterlife of religious elements in modern culture and possible responses to the current religious re-appropriation of Adorno's critique of modern capitalist culture by both Christian fundamentalists and radical Islamists...

Idols of the Marketplace
Idols of the Marketplace

Author: D. Hawkes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-10-11

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0312292694

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Postmodern society seems incapable of elaborating an ethical critique of the market economy. Early modern society showed no such reticence. Between 1580 and 1680, Aristotelian teleology was replaced as the dominant mode of philosophy in England by Baconian empiricism. This was a process with implications for every sphere of life: for politics and theology, economics and ethics, aesthetics and sexuality. Through nuanced and original readings of Shakespeare, Herbert, Donne, Milton, Traherne, and Bunyan, David Hawkes sheds light on the antitheatrical controversy, and early modern debates over idolatry and value and trade. Hawkes argues that the people of Renaissance England believed that the decline of telos resulted in a reified, fetishistic mode of consciousness which manifests itself in such phenomena as religious idolatry, commodity fetish, and carnal sensuality. He suggests that the resulting early modern critique of the market economy has much to offer postmodern society.

American Idols
American Idols

Author: Bob Hostetler

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 080544078X

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Feeding off the frenzy of fleeting fame and image overload, Hostetler takes anecessary look at the false gods in modern society. This timely book can helpreaders realize and overcome their own idolatries.

Islands of Eight Million Smiles
Islands of Eight Million Smiles

Author: Hiroshi Aoyagi

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the "idol," an attractive young actor packaged and promoted as an adolescent role model and exploited for marketing. This book offers ethnographic case studies on the symbolic qualities of idols and how they relate to the conceptualization of self among adolescents.

Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture
Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture

Author: P. W. Galbraith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-08-30

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1137283785

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This is the most complete and compelling account of idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture to date. Engaging with the study of media, gender and celebrity, and sensitive to history and the contemporary scene, these interdisciplinary essays cover male and female idols, production and consumption, industrial structures and fan movements.