Theodor Adorno
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Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 1903 – 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the work of Freud, Marx and Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. Adorno is one of the leading social thinkers of the twentieth century, long concerned himself with the problems of moral philosophy, or whether the good life is a genuine possibility in the present.
Literature
- Books by Adorno
- Dialectic of Enlightenment (with Max Horkheimer), 1944
- Composing for the Films, 1947
- Philosophy of New Music, 1949
- Filosofia da Nova Musica (Spanish trans.), 1974
- The Authoritarian Personality, 1950
- Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, 1951
- In Search of Wagner, 1952
- Dissonanzen. Musik in der verwalteten Welt, 1956
- Sound Figures, 1959
- Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962, 1964
- Negative Dialectics (German: Negative Dialektik), 1966 [1]
- Aesthetic Theory, 1970
- Adorno's Gesammelte Schriften (Collected works), Edited by Rolf Tiedemann, with Gretel Adorno, Susan Buck-Morss and Klaus Schultz, 20 volumes, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1970.
- Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, Brecht, Lukács, "Aesthetics and Politics" , 1977/1980
- Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music; Fragments and Texts, 1993
- Adorno: The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture, 1994
- Tia DeNora, After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology , 2003
- Current of Music, 2006
- Books about Adorno
- Susan Buck-Morss, The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and The Frankfurt Institute, 1977
- Christoph Menke, The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida, 1999
- David Jenemann, Adorno in America, 2007
- John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros, Sergio Tischler (eds.), Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism, 2009