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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 along with Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Jurgen Habermas, and others. He was also the Music Director of the Radio Project..

"There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence."

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"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."

Adorno, Theodor W. on art
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"Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture."

Adorno, Theodor W. on criticism    Share

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