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Theodor W. Adorno (/ ə ˈ d ɔːr n oʊ / ə-DOR-noh, German: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ʔaˈdɔʁno] ⓘ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist.
May 5, 2003 · Theodor W. 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.
Theodor Adorno was one of the foremost continental philosophers of the twentieth century. Although he wrote on a wide range of subjects, his fundamental concern was human suffering—especially modern societies’ effects upon the human condition.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (born Sept. 11, 1903, Frankfurt am Main, Ger.—died Aug. 6, 1969, Visp, Switz.) was a German philosopher who also wrote on sociology, psychology, and musicology. Adorno obtained a degree in philosophy from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt in 1924.
Apr 4, 2022 · Theodor W. Adorno was one of the 20th century’s leading philosophers and social critics. He rose to prominence in post-war Germany, producing a vast body of work that encompassed a range of subjects, including sociology, psychology, and musicology.
Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology, aesthetics, musicology, and literary criticism.
Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) was a leading figure in the Frankfurt School and one of the twentieth century's most demanding intellectuals. Recognized for his contributions to the fields of philosophy, sociology, aesthetics, literary criticism, and musi...
Detlev Claussen follows Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903–1969) from his privileged life as a beloved prodigy to his intellectual coming of age in Weimar Germany and Vienna; from his exile during the Nazi years, first to England, then to the United States, to his emergence as the Adorno we know now in the perhaps not-so-unlikely setting of Los ...
ADORNO’S GOAL IS NOT the elimination of the concept of identity, but the rescue of the perspective of successful identity. This project implies a twofold sublimation of identity: a utopian negation both of existing nonidentity and inner contradiction and of the identity compulsion that is their reverse side.
Jul 1, 2009 · About this book. This book gives us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create “critical theory.” An intimate picture of the quintessential twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual, the book is also a window on the cultural ferment of Adorno’s day—and its ongoing importance in our own. Reviews.
