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.
Literature
- Books
- Dialectic of Enlightenment (with Max Horkheimer), 1944
- Composing for the Films, 1947
- Philosophy of New Music, 1949
- 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.
- Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music; Fragments and Texts, 1993
- Current of Music, 2006
