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Theodor W. Adorno


Born
in Frankfurt, Germany
September 11, 1903

Died
August 06, 1969

Website

Genre
Philosophy, Social Sciences, Politics

Influences
Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl ...more


Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno was one of the most important philosophers and social critics in Germany after World War II. Although less well known among anglophone philosophers than his contemporary Hans-Georg Gadamer, Adorno had even greater influence on scholars and intellectuals in postwar Germany. In the 1960s he was the most prominent challenger to both Sir Karl Popper's philosophy of science and Martin Heidegger's philosophy of existence. Jürgen Habermas, Germany's foremost social philosopher after 1970, was Adorno's student and assistant. The scope of Adorno's influence stems from the interdisciplinary character of his research and of the Frankfurt School to which he belonged. It also stems from the thoroughness with which he examined ...more

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Aesthetic Theory
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Aesthetics and Politics
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Negative Dialectics
4.15 avg rating — 1,976 ratings — published 1966 — 66 editions
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Aspekte des neuen Rechtsrad...
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The Authoritarian Personality
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3.80 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 1950 — 23 editions
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The Jargon of Authenticity
3.86 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 1964 — 16 editions
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Philosophy of New Music
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3.78 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 1949 — 31 editions
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The Stars Down to Earth and...
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“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
― Theodor Adorno
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“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.”
― Theodor W. Adorno
tags: humility, hypocrisy, self-awareness
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“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”
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