Books/Writings
  • Negative Dialects
    (Available New and Used)
  • Philosophy of Modern Music
    (Available New and Used)
  • Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy
    (Available New and Used)
Theodor Adorno
1903 – 1969
German

Philosopher, sociologist, and music critic. A member of the so-called Frankfurt School, he became an inspiration to the American and European "new left" of the 1960's. Among the values he expressed were: anti-fascism, reinterpreting and rescuing Marxism from Stalinism, a rejection of modern materialism and technologism, and the indispensability of revolution and the revolutionary attitude.

Contemporaries
1887–1968Arnold Zweig
1857–1933Clara Zetkin
1832–1920Wilhelm Wundt
1864–1920Max Weber
1885–1946Julius Streicher
1891–1942Edith Stein
1880–1936Oswald Spengler
1858–1918Georg Simmel
1917–2006Heinz Sielmann
1875–1965Albert Schweitzer
1882–1936Moritz Schlick
1874–1928Max Scheler
1888–1965Erich Rothacker
1886–1929Franz Rosenzweig
1893–1946Alfred Rosenberg
1882–1918Manfred Richthofen
1863–1936Heinrich Rickert
1891–1953Hans Reichenbach
1904–1984Karl Rahner
1888–1938Carl von Ossietzky
1886–1969Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1934–1976Ulrike Meinhof
1871–1919Rosa Luxemburg
1904–1988Frederick Loewe
1871–1919Karl Liebknecht
1906–1967Alfried Krupp
1886–1941Kurt Koffka
1856–1926Emil Kraepelin
1903–1946Ernst Kaltenbrunner
1883–1969Karl Jaspers
1859–1938Edmund Husserl
1885–1952Karen Horney
Born 1931Rolf Hochhuth
1900–1945Heinrich Himmler
1904–1942Reinhard Heydrich
1851–1930Adolf von Harnack
1834–1919Ernst Haeckel
Born 1929Jürgen Habermas
1897–1945Joseph Goebbels
1893–1946Hermann Göering
1848–1925Gottlob Frege
1946–1982Rainer Fassbinder
1846–1926Rudolf Eucken
1844–1930Adolf Engler
1833–1911Wilhelm Dilthey
1904–1992Marlene Dietrich
1842–1912Hermann Cohen
1874–1945Ernst Cassirer
1838–1917Franz Brentano
1844–1931Lujo Brentano
1910–1945Eva Braun
1898–1956Bertolt Brecht
1862–1915Theodor Boveri
1900–c. 1945Martin Bormann
1906–1945Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1850–1932Eduard Bernstein
1844–1929Karl Benz
1873–1954Gertrude Baumer
1943–1977Andreas Baader
1906–1975Hannah Arendt
1876–1967Konrad Adenauer