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Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno

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[Revised entry by Henry Pickford and Lambert Zuidervaart on November 4, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Theodor W. Adorno (1903 – 1969) was one of the most important philosophers, cultural, and music critics in Germany after World War II. Although less well known among anglophone philosophers than many of his contemporaries, such as 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. Jurgen Habermas, Germany’s…

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