In a November 4, 1968, letter to Günter Grass, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno (1903-69) made an observation about his student, Hans-Jürgen Krahl — a leader of the protest-happy German Socialist ...

A conversation with Peter Gordon about the enduring influence of the Frankfurt School's leader, the future of critical theory, and his recent book, A Precarious Happiness. Theodor Adorno giving a ...

Most people first encounter Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) as one of the leading lights of the Marxist philosophers known as the Frankfurt School and as the collaborator with Max Horkheimer on Dialectic ...

On April 6, 1967, Theodor W. Adorno accepted an invitation from the Association of Socialist Students at the University of Vienna to deliver a lecture on “aspects of the new right-wing extremism.” The ...

It was 1969. Philosopher and cultural critic Theodor Adorno received a letter from Herbert Marcuse. In the letter Marcuse had one request: to give a lecture at the Frankfurt school where Adorno taught ...

Over Thanksgiving break, Professor Fabian Arzuaga traveled to Mexico for the Adorno Conference. Titled “Critical Theory: 50 Years After Adorno,” Arzuaga and his colleagues set out to discuss and ...

Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a ...

Though the vast majority of his writings on music dealt primarily with the classical tradition, Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) also devoted a considerable amount of attention to jazz. To say Adorno was ...

VCS Department Chair Tom Huhn recently wrote a blurb for the book Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History by William S. Allen, with was published in earlier this year by Bloomsbury Academic press. Here ...