在“西方马克思主义”学者中,阿多尔诺被视为仅次于卢卡契的当代美学大师。他以社会批判理论著称于世,而文化工业作为他那个时期日趋泛滥的文化现象,自然就构成他艺术社会理论的重要研究对象。早在1938年,阿多尔诺就写出《论音乐的偶像性和欣赏力的退化》,开 Among the “Western Marxist” scholars, Adorno is regarded as a master of contemporary aesthetics after Lukacs. He is famous for his critical theory of society. Cultural industry, as an increasingly widespread cultural phenomenon in his time, naturally constituted an important research subject in his social theory of the arts. As early as 1938, Adorno wrote “on the idol of music and the degradation of appreciation”, open