Theodor W. Adorno

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. 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. Jurgen Habermas, Germany's foremost social philosopher after 1970, was Adorno's …

…Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance, trans. M. Robertson, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. * Zuidervaart, L., 1991, Adorno's Aesthetic Theory: The Redemption of Illusion, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. * Zuidervaart, L., et al., 1998, "Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund," Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Vol. 1, pp. 16-32, ed. M. Kelly, New York: Oxford University Press. Other Internet Resources * The Theodor W. Adorno Archive in Franfurt * Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate * Illuminations: The Critical Theory Web Site