Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund

Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund
(1903–69)
   German philosopher. Adorno was born in Frankfurt-am-Main. His father was a German Jew and his mother an Italian Catholic. He started his career teaching philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, but moved to England and subsequently to the United States in the war years. In 1949 he returned to Frankfurt where he became Director of the Institute for Social Re-search, and Professor of Philosophy and Sociology at the University. Adorno was a prolific writer, initially concentrating his researches on the work of Kierkegaard, Hussel and Heidegger. Before World War II his work showed little Jewish attachment, but he was profoundly affected by the Holocaust. His Dialectic of Enlightenment (1949) written with Max Horkheimer discussed the roots of anti-Semitism and attempts to explain the ‘new kind of barbarism’ of the Nazi period. He continued to explore this theme in The Authoritarian Personality (1950) which was sponsored by the American Jewish committee. His other books include a series of moral aphorisms entitled Minima Moralia (1974) which was subtitled Reflections from a Damaged Life, Negative Dialectics (English 1973) in which he reflects on his status as a Holocaust survivor and Aesthetic Theory (1986) in which he discusses his philosophy of art. He is chiefly remembered for his dictum ‘No poetry after Auschwitz’.

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