ADORNO, THEODOR

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ADORNO, THEODOR (1903–1969), social theorist and musicologist; akey associate of Frankfurt's Institut fu¨r Sozialforschung. He was born in Frankfurt,where his father was a Jewish wine merchant (born Wiesengrund, Theodoradopted his mother's maiden name, Adorno, during World War I). Studies atFrankfurt led to a doctorate in 1924 with a thesis on the philosophy of EdmundHusserl.* During 1925–1928 he studied music with Alban Berg in Vienna andwrote his Habilitation on Kant and Freud. The completed manuscript was neverexamined; growing Marxist involvement and friendships with Walter Benjamin*and Max Horkheimer* led him to withdraw the thesis from his examiners. Returning to Frankfurt in 1928, he submitted a book on Søren Kierkegaard as anew Habilitation. He began teaching at Frankfurt in 1931, but he was not officiallypart of the Frankfurt School* until 1938, after its relocation to NewYork. During 1928–1930 he edited Musikbla¨tter des Anbruch, a Vienna-basedmusic journal. In September 1933 the NSDAP withdrew his right to teach.Initially relocating to Berlin,* he left for London in the spring of 1934.Most attempts to classify Adorno are inadequate. While he was influenced byMarx, his work drew extensively on Hegel and was influenced by the pre-Marxist thought of Georg Luka´cs* and Benjamin. Also, while sociology enrichedhis thinking, during most of his life—from 1920 until his death in 1969—he published regularly on music. He identified himself with Vienna's neue Musik(especially the music of Berg and Arnold Schoenberg*), and his critique ofmusic was integral to his philosophy and sociology. In sum, whether he waswriting philosophy, psychology, or musicology, Adorno aimed to dissolve conceptualdistinctions resulting from some mistaken notion of ultimate ‘‘primacy.''His best-known work, The Authoritarian Personality, appeared only in 1950;inspired by his German experience, the book's thesis contends that authoritarianismserves as the core around which certain personalities are forged.