3) Adorno refused to address and condemn the Moscow Trials even though he and other leading members of the Frankfurt School were quite aware of what was taking place in the Soviet Union.

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 ...

In 1949, when Danielle Steel was just a toddler, Theodor Adorno declared that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” It took her awhile, but Steel has proved Adorno’s point. Not that ...

In 1968 the progressive was attacked as reactionary In a November 4, 1968, letter to Günter Grass, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno (1903-69) made an observation about his student, Hans ...

We live in an era where authoritarians are on the march in Hungary, Russia, Brazil, India, Turkey, the United States, and a disturbingly long list of other countries. Russia’s brutal ongoing ...

Just after the Second World War, the philosopher Theodor Adorno was puzzled by why so many of his fellow Germans had participated in mass murder. Adorno suspected some people had personality traits ...

Live TV. Advertisement. Culture. What Adorno understood about the far right . Sabine Peschel eg. 08/06/2019 August 6, 2019. ... Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer aimed "to explain why humanity, ...

Adorno’s stance towards the socialist dictatorship, which is fairly close to that of Hannah Arendt, is probably the reason why Adorno entirely neglects the Prague Spring of 1968.

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.