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Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer. He was a member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory and a noted cultural pessimist and elitist.

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• Composing for the Films (1947 with Hanns Eisler), New York: Oxford University Press. Recent reprints: London & Atlantic Highlands: Athlone, 2005. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 2006 (ed. Johannes C. Gall, with a noteworthy )
• Philosophy of Modern Music (1949)
• The Authoritarian Personality (et al. 1950). New York: Harper.
• Negative Dialectics. Translated by E.B. Ashton, London: Routledge, 1973 (Published in German in 1966)
• Prisms (1967)
• Aesthetic Theory (Published in German in 1970)
• Dialektik der Aufklärung (1944 with Horkheimer). Translations:
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment. Trans. John Cumming. New York: Continuum, 1973.
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. Ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, trans. Edmund Jephcott. Stanford, Cal.:Stanford University Press, 2002.
• Minima Moralia (1974)
• “The Actuality of Philosophy”. Telos 31 (Spring 1977). New York: Telos Press.
• Against Epistemology: A Metacritique; Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies (1983).
• Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic (1989).
• Notes to Literature: Volume One (1991).
• Notes to Literature: Volume Two (1992).
• Critical Theory Since Plato (1992).
• Hegel: Three Studies (1993).
• Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music (1998).
• Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords (1998).
• Metaphysics: Concept and Problems (2000).
• Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' (2001).