This collection of texts is the first English presentation of a selection of the work of the West German Marxist philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug. It brings together 10 essential essays written between 1970 and 1983, and sets forth a multi-dimensional analvsis 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 from below”; and a theory of the ideological, particularly concerned with ideological powers “from above”. Published on Seth Sieglaub’s imprint International General/IMMRC.