Adorno and Democracy: The American Years - Hardcover

by Shannon L. Mariotti (Author)

German philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. A leading member of the Frankfurt School, Adorno advanced an unconventional type of Marxist analysis in books such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), Minima Moralia (1951), and Negative Dialectics (1966). Forced out of Nazi Germany because of his Jewish heritage, Adorno lived in exile in the United States for nearly fifteen years. In Adorno and Democr

Author Biography

Shannon Mariotti is associate professor of political science at Southwestern University. She is the author of Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity.