Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno was one of the most important philosophers and social critics in Germany after World War II. Although less well known among anglophone philosophers than his contemporary Hans-Georg Gadamer, Adorno had even greater influence on scholars and intellectuals in postwar Germany. In the 1960s he was the most prominent challenger to both Sir Karl Popper's philosophy of science and Martin Heidegger's philosophy of existence. Jürgen Habermas, Germany's foremost social philosopher after 1970, was Adorno's student and assistant. The scope of Adorno's influence stems from the interdisciplinary character of his research and of the Frankfurt School to which he belonged. It also stems from the thoroughness with which he examined Western philosophical traditions, especially from Kant onward, and the radicalness to his critique of contemporary Western society. He was a seminal social philosopher and a leading member of the first generation of Critical Theory. Unreliable translations hampered the initial reception of Adorno's published work in English speaking countries. Since the 1990s, however, better translations have appeared, along with newly translated lectures and other posthumous works that are still being published. These materials not only facilitate an emerging assessment of his work in epistemology and ethics but also strengthen an already advanced reception of his work in aesthetics and cultural theory.
Books
An Introduction to Dialectics
1958
Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism
2019
Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'
1991
Rasgos del nuevo radicalismo de derecha
2020
Aesthetics and Politics
1977
Introduction to Sociology
1968
Kierkegaard
Construction of the Aesthetic (Volume 61)
1933
Composing for the Films
1947
Radical Thinkers Classics
Minima Moralia, Culture and Materialism, For Marx, Aesthetics and Politics (Shrinkwrapped Set) (Vol. 1-4)
2009
In Search of Wagner
1952
Quasi Una Fantasia
Essays on Modern Music
1982
Erziehung Zur Mundigkeit by Theodor W. Adorno
1993
Introduction to the Sociology of Music
1962
Aesthetics
2017
Kymmenen puheenvuoroa yhteiskunnasta
1949-1963
2025
Problems of Moral Philosophy
1963
Minima Moralia
Reflections on a Damaged Life
1951
Dream Notes
2005
The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas' Radio Addresses
1999
Prisms
1969
Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda
2023
The Authoritarian Personality
1950
Metaphysics
Concept and Problems
1998
The Jargon of Authenticity
1964
Notes to Literature
1974
Beethoven
The Philosophy of Music
1970
Night Music
Essays on Music 1928-1962
2009
Dialectic of Enlightenment
1944
Mahler
A Musical Physiognomy
1960
Lectures on Negative Dialectics
Fragments of a Lecture Course 1965/1966
2008
Towards a New Manifesto
2011
The Culture Industry
Selected Essays on Mass Culture
1944
Current of Music
Elements of a Radio Theory
2006
Negative Dialectics
1966
Ontology and Dialectics
1960-61
2002
History and Freedom
Lectures 1964-1965
2006
Can One Live After Auschwitz?
A Philosophical Reader
1996
Against Epistemology
A Metacritique
1956
Sound Figures
1999
The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture
1975
Philosophical Elements of a Theory of Society
2019
Philosophy of New Music
1949
Alban Berg
Master of the Smallest Link
2012
Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction
Notes, a Draft and Two Schemata
2001
Yeni Sağ Radikalizmin Veçheleri ve Geçmişin İşlenmesi Ne Demektir?
2020
Kulturindustrie
Aufklärung als Massenbetrug
1971
Critical Models
Interventions and Catchwords
1963
The Authoritarian Personality - Vol. II
2016
Correspondence 1943-1955
2003
Aesthetic Theory
1970
Hegel
Three Studies
1963
