Northrop Frye’s Mass Man is Martin Heidegger’s Standing Reserve

This paper argues that cultural critic, Northrop Frye, shows mass culture to be the sort of analgesic modern capitalism designs to maintain contemporary individuals in their roles as what Martin Heidegger, calls “standing reserves.” To this end, the paper will first describe Heidegger’s view of mode...

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