Collection of texts by Wolfgang Fritz Haug. "It brings together 10 essential essays written between 1970 and 1983, and sets forth a multi-dimensional analysis of culture integrating three interrelated theories: a theory of commodity aesthetics or the phenomenon and function of the realization of the value of commodities; a theory of the cultural as an omni-present dimension of everyday life, especially "culture form below" ; and a theory of the ideological, particularly concerned with ideological powers "from above"." -- from publisher's statement. Includes the following chapters "Another Approach to the Cultural"; "Rethinking the Ideological"; Elements of a Theory of Commodity Aesthetics"; "Interconnections" and an extensive bibliography. An International General [Seth Siegelaub] publication.