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"A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature." -Susan Sontag

About the Author

Theodor Adorno was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1959 until his death in 1969. His works include In Search of Wagner; Aesthetic Theory; Negative Dialectics; and (with Max Horkheimer) Dialectic of Enlightenment and Towards a New Manifesto.

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The best thoughts of a noble and invigorating mind.
*Observer*

A primary intellectual document of this age.
*Sunday Times*