Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno | |
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| Born | September 11, 1903 |
| Died | August 6, 1969 (aged 65) |
| Nationality | German |
| Other names | Theodor Ludwig Adorno Wellington |
| Era | 20th century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Critical theory, Marxism |
Main interests | Social theory, sociology, psychoanalysis, epistemology, aesthetics, musicology, mass media |
Notable ideas | Criticism of "actionism,"[1] modernist art opposes the conventional ordering of experience found in the mass media,[2][3] the paradox of aesthetics,[4] negative dialectics |
Theodor W. Adorno (/əˈdɔːrnoʊ/;[5] German: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ʔaˈdɔɐ̯no] (
listen);[6][7] born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher, composer, and music theorist.
He designed the F-scale with other researchers at the University of California. This scale tried to measure "the authoritarian personality". F stands for Fascist. He wrote about this in the 1950 book The Authoritarian Personality. He was a Marxist.
Theodor W. Adorno Media
The "Adorno traffic light" on Senckenberganlage, a street which divides the Institute for Social Research from the University of Frankfurt am Main. Adorno requested its construction after a pedestrian death in 1962, and it was finally installed 25 years later.
Mural of Theodor Adorno by Justus Becker and Oğuz Şen. Senckenberganlage, Frankfurt
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References
- ↑ Christine Fillion, "Adorno's Marginalien zu Theorie und Praxis: In Praise of Discontinuity", Humanitas, Volume 2, Issue 1, Fall 2012.
- ↑ Arato, Andrew. Essential Frankfurt School Reader (1978)Bloomsbury Academic. p. 300–318. ISBN 978-0-8264-0194-6.
- ↑ Day, Gary. Literary Criticism: A New History (2008)Edinburgh University Press. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-7486-1563-6.
- ↑ Harding, James Martin. Adorno and "A Writing of the Ruins": Essays on Modern Aesthetics and Anglo-American Literature and Culture (1997)SUNY Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7914-3269-3.
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of English
- ↑ Krech, Eva-Maria. Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch (in de) (2009). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 293. ISBN 978-3-11-018202-6.
- ↑ Duden | Adorno | Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition (in de). Duden. Retrieved 22 October 2018.