Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno
Born	(1903-09-11)September 11, 1903 Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
Died	August 6, 1969(1969-08-06) (aged 65) Visp, Visp, Valais, Switzerland
Nationality	German
Other names	Theodor Ludwig Adorno Wellington
Era	20th century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Critical theory, Marxism
Main interests	Social theory, sociology, psychoanalysis, epistemology, aesthetics, musicology, mass media
Notable ideas	Criticism of "actionism,"[1] modernist art opposes the conventional ordering of experience found in the mass media,[2][3] the paradox of aesthetics,[4] negative dialectics

Theodor W. Adorno (/əˈdɔːrnoʊ/;^[5] German: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ʔaˈdɔɐ̯no] (listen);^[6][7] born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher, composer, and music theorist.

He designed the F-scale with other researchers at the University of California. This scale tried to measure "the authoritarian personality", the "F" standing for "Fascist". He wrote about this in the 1950 book The Authoritarian Personality. He was a Marxist.

1. ↑ Christine Fillion, "Adorno's Marginalien zu Theorie und Praxis: In Praise of Discontinuity", Humanitas, Volume 2, Issue 1, Fall 2012.
2. ↑ Arato, Andrew; Gephardt, Eike (1978). Essential Frankfurt School Reader. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 300–318. ISBN 978-0-8264-0194-6.
3. ↑ Day, Gary (2008). Literary Criticism: A New History. Edinburgh University Press. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-7486-1563-6.
4. ↑ Harding, James Martin (1997). Adorno and "A Writing of the Ruins": Essays on Modern Aesthetics and Anglo-American Literature and Culture. SUNY Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7914-3269-3.
5. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of English
6. ↑ Krech, Eva-Maria; Stock, Eberhard; Hirschfeld, Ursula; Anders, Lutz Christian (2009). Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch [German Pronunciation Dictionary] (in German). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 293. ISBN 978-3-11-018202-6.
7. ↑ "Duden | Adorno | Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition". Duden (in German). Retrieved 22 October 2018.