The published culture industry chapter omitted its planned treatment of mass culture’s positive aspects

Evidence

And the same happened again to the subject of the second chapter, mass culture. The section on the "culture industry" is even more fragmentary than the others,' Horkheimer and Adorno emphasized later on, in the introduction to the Dialectic of Enlightenment. Extensive sections,’ they noted in a sentence in the mimeographed edition of 1944, which was omitted from the published book, `have long since been produced, and are only waiting for final editing. In these, the positive aspects of mass culture will be discussed.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1345