Theodor W. Adorno

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critical theorist human member of the Frankfurt School musicologist philosopher sociologist

Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, sociologist, musicologist, and leading member of the Frankfurt School known for his critical theory of society and culture.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	critical theorist → human → member of the Frankfurt School → musicologist → philosopher → sociologist →
alternateName	T. W. Adorno → Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno →
causeOfDeath	heart attack →
citizenship	Germany → United States of America →
coAuthor	Max Horkheimer →
coAuthorOf	Dialectic of Enlightenment → The Authoritarian Personality →
countryOfBirth	German Empire →
countryOfDeath	Switzerland →
dateOfBirth	1903-09-11 →
dateOfDeath	1969-08-06 →
doctoralAdvisor	Hans Cornelius →
doctoralThesis	The Transcendence of the Empirical in Husserl and Kant →
educatedAt	University of Frankfurt NERFINISHED → University of Vienna →
employer	Institute for Social Research → University of California, Los Angeles → University of Frankfurt NERFINISHED →
era	20th-century philosophy →
ethnicGroup	Jewish →
familyName	Wiesengrund →
father	Oscar Alexander Wiesengrund →
fieldOfWork	aesthetics → musicology → philosophy → social theory →
fullName	Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno →
givenName	Theodor →
influenced	Axel Honneth → Fredric Jameson → Jürgen Habermas → Susan Buck-Morss → Theodor K. Adorno scholarship →
influencedBy	Arnold Schoenberg → Friedrich Nietzsche → G. W. F. Hegel → Georg Lukács → Immanuel Kant → Karl Marx → Max Weber → Sigmund Freud → Walter Benjamin →
language	German →
mainInterest	aesthetics of modern music → critique of culture industry → dialectics →
mother	Maria Calvelli-Adorno della Piana →
movement	Frankfurt School → Western Marxism → critical theory →
nationality	German →
notableIdea	administered world → critique of instrumental reason → critique of mass culture →
notableWork	Aesthetic Theory → Dialectic of Enlightenment → In Search of Wagner → Minima Moralia → Negative Dialectics → Philosophy of New Music → Prisms → The Authoritarian Personality →
placeOfBirth	Frankfurt am Main →
placeOfDeath	Visp →
positionHeld	director of the Institute for Social Research →
religion	secular Judaism →
residence	Frankfurt am Main → Los Angeles → New York City →
spouse	Gretel Adorno →
theory	culture industry → immanent critique → negative dialectics → non-identity →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
G. W. F. Hegel → György Lukács → Phenomenology of Spirit → Walter Benjamin →	influenced
Axel Honneth → Eros and Civilization → Jürgen Habermas → Seyla Benhabib →	influencedBy
Theodor W. Adorno ("Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno") → Theodor W. Adorno ("T. W. Adorno") →	alternateName
Frankfurt School → Institute for Social Research →	hasMember
Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts → Peace Prize of the German Book Trade →	hasNotableRecipient
Western Marxism →	associatedWith
Theodor W. Adorno ("Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno") →	fullName
Humboldt University of Berlin →	hasNotableAlumni
Theodor W. Adorno Award →	namedAfter