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Theodor Adorno (1903 - 1969). German philosopher who was a leading member of the Frankfurt School. Adorno led an influential attack on the "culture industry" prevalent in contemporary capitalist society.
'Adorno is a political thinker who wished to bring about radical
change.' - Iris Murdoch
'A volume of Adorno's essays is equivalent to a whole shelf of
books on literature.' - Susan Sontag
'Adorno expounds what may be called a new philosophy of
consciousness. His philosophy lives, dangerously but also
fruitfully, in proximity to an ascetic puritanical moral rage, an
attachment to some items in the structure and vocabulary of
Marxism, and a feeling that human suffering is the only important
thing and makes nonsense of everything else... Adorno is a
political thinker who wishes to bring about radical change. He is
also a philosopher, with a zest for metaphysics, who is at home in
the western philosophical tradition.' - Irish Murdoch
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