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Adorno, Theodor (Wiesengrund)
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originally Theodor Wiesengrund
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[adaw(r)noh]
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| Social philosopher and musicologist, born in Frankfurt, WC Germany. He was a student in Frankfurt and later an associate of the Institute for Social Research, becoming a member of the movement known as the ‘Frankfurt School’. In 1934 he emigrated to the USA to teach at the Institute in exile, returning to Frankfurt in 1956. His philosophy is most fully presented in Negative Dialectics (1966). His sociological writings on music, mass-culture, and art include Philosophie der neuen Musik (1949, Philosophy of Modern Music) and Mahler (1960). |
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