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| Theodor W. Adorno | |
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Max Horkheimer (front left), Theodor Adorno (front right), and Jürgen Habermas (in the background, right), in 1964 in Heidelberg
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| Full name | Theodor W. Adorno |
| Born | September 11, 1903 Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany |
| Died | August 6, 1969 (aged 65) Visp, Visp, Valais, Switzerland |
| Era | 20th century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Critical theory, Marxism |
| Main interests | Social theory, sociology, psychoanalysis, epistemology, aesthetics, musicology, mass media |
| Notable ideas | Criticism of "actionism," modernist art opposes the conventional ordering of experience found in the mass media, the paradox of aesthetics, negative dialectics |
Theodor W. Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German sociologist. He designed the F-scale with other researchers at the University of California. This scale tried to measure "the authoritarian personality", the "F" standing for "Fascist". He wrote about this with them in the controversial 1950 book The Authoritarian Personality. He was a Marxist.