Theodor Adorno's Biography
Theodor Adorno Facts
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Who was Theodor Adorno?
Theodor Wisengrund Adorno was born in Frankfurt on September 11, 1903 as Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund.He decided to make his surname his middle name and take on his mother's maiden name.
Adorno is generally regarded as the most brilliant and yet the most obscure of the first generation of the 'Frankfurt School'.
He was director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research from 1958 until the year of his death (1969).
He wrote 'Negative Dialectics' in 1966, in which he argued that all philosophers have made the mistake of seeking an absolute starting point in epistemology and metaphysics, whereas no such 'primacy' exists.
Theodor Adorno died in Zermatt im Wallis, Valais, Switzerland on 7 August 1969.
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