Critical theory and ideology in contemporary communication: the relevance for the present time of the Frankfurt School and Gramsci

Abstract

The Frankfurt School approach about the question of ideology is a historical one. The ideology has new characteristics with the social consolidation of monopolist capitalism. The object of the paper will be a parallel between the “Frankfurt School” and the ideas of the sociologist Daniel Bell about the end of the ideology. The ideology’s concept of Gramsci will also be examined. The paper’s aim is to analyse if the conceptions of the Frankfurt School and Gramsci are still relevants to the understanding of communicational process.