In 1953, sociologist Theodor W. Adorno conducted a study of the astrology column of a Los Angeles newspaper as part of a project examining mass culture in capitalist society.

Theodor Adorno felt that aesthetics could not proceed without confronting the role of the culture industry in the commodification of art and aesthetic experience.

Theodor Adorno claimed in 1969 “ It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident .” Artists, philosophers, anthropologists, psychologists and programmers all use the notion of art in their respective fields, and give it operational definitions that vary considerably.

* Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Berg passed this on to his students, one of whom, Theodor Adorno, stated: " The main principle he conveyed was that of variation: everything was supposed to develop out of something else and yet be intrinsically different ".

This finding was echoed by Theodor Adorno.

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* Horkheimer, Max ; Adorno, Theodor W. ( 1944 /' 47 ) Dialectic of Enlightenment

* Adorno, Theodor W. ( 1966 ) Negative Dialectics

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Critical theory was established as a school of thought by five Frankfurt School theoreticians: Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, and Jürgen Habermas.

It has also been closely identified with certain kinds of artistic and cultural practice by Cornelius Castoriadis, Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Ranciere, and Theodor Adorno.

Although he never returned to Germany to live, he remained one of the major theorists associated with the Frankfurt School, along with Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno ( among others ).

Weber has influenced many later social theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, György Lukács and Jürgen Habermas.

Another paradigmatic exhortation was articulated by philosopher and composer Theodor Adorno, who, in the 1940s, challenged conventional surface coherence and appearance of harmony typical of the rationality of Enlightenment thinking.

A paradigmatic modernist exhortation was articulated by philosopher and composer Theodor Adorno, which in the 1940s, invited to challenge conventional surface coherence and appearance of harmony:

Such work may be based on feminist, gender studies, queer theory, or postcolonial theory, or the work of Theodor Adorno.

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Out of the Frankfurt School, thinkers like Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Jürgen Habermas combined Marxian and Freudian perspectives.

As early as 1938, Theodor Adorno had already identified a trend toward the dissolution of " a culturally dominant set of values " ( Beard and Gloag 2005, 141 ), citing the commodification of all genres as beginning of the end of genre or value distinctions in music ( Adorno 2002, 293 – 95 ).

* Adorno, Theodor W. 2002.

* Adorno, Theodor W., ( 1942 ) " On Popular Music ", Institute of Social Research.

Another member of the Frankfurt school, Theodor Adorno, published The Authoritarian Personality, in 1950, which was an influential sociological book which could be taken as something of a proto-psychohistorical book.

* 1903 – Theodor Adorno, German philosopher and sociologist ( d. 1969 )

Theodor W. Adorno (; ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund ; September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969 ) was a German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society.

Theodor Ludwig Adorno-Wiesengrund was born in Frankfurt am Main on September 11, 1903, the only child of Oscar Alexander Wiesengrund ( 1870 – 1946 ) and Maria Calvelli-Adorno della Piana ( 1865 – 1952 ).

* August 6 – Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher ( b. 1903 )

* November 30 – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1903 )

One of his daughters, Princess Irene Pavlovna Paley ( 1903 – 1990 ), married in exile in 1923 her cousin, Prince Theodor Aleksandrovich of Russia, ( 1898-1968.

He had ten children, including five sons, Henry ( 1818 – 1855 ), Ernest ( 1819 – 1903 ), Karl ( 1821 – 1887 ), Georg ( 1824 – 1896 ) and Theodor ( 1832 – 1892 ).

Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell ForMemRS ( 6 July 1903 – 15 August 1982 ) was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine.

Later recipients included Thomas Babington Macaulay ( 1853 ), John C. Frémont ( 1860 ), Theodor Mommsen ( 1868 ), Charles Darwin ( 1868 ), Thomas Carlyle ( 1874 ) ( who never accepted any other honor ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1875 ), William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ( 1884 ), Heinrich von Treitschke ( 1887 ), Johannes Brahms ( 1887 ), Giuseppe Verdi ( 1887 ), William Henry Flower ( 1899 ), Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1901 ), Luigi Cremona ( 1903 ), John Singer Sargent ( 1908 ), Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( 1910 ), Otto Lessing ( sculptor ) ( 1911 ), Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( 1911 ), Sir William Ramsay ( 1911 ), Max Planck ( 1915 ), and Rudolph Sohm ( 1916 ).

* Wilhelm Theodor von Kraemer 1891 – 1903

* Theodor Hjalmar Lang 1903 – 1905

* Theodor Knipovitsch 1903 – 1906

* Theodor Mommsen ( 1817 – 1903 ), historian, Nobel Prize for literature in 1902

* Theodor Knipovitsch 1903 – 1906

* Wilhelm Theodor von Kraemer 1891 – 1903

* Theodor Hjalmar Lang 1903 – 1905

Individual contributions have been made by epigraphers such as Georg Fabricius ( 1516 – 1571 ); August Wilhelm Zumpt ( 1815 – 1877 ); Theodor Mommsen ( 1817 – 1903 ); Emil Hübner ( 1834 – 1901 ); Franz Cumont ( 1868 – 1947 ); Louis Robert ( 1904 – 1985 ).

The term culture industry was coined by the critical theorists Theodor Adorno ( 1903 – 1969 ) and Max Horkheimer ( 1895 – 1973 ), and was presented as critical vocabulary in the chapter “ The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception ”, of the book Dialectic of Enlightenment ( 1944 ), wherein they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods — films, radio programmes, magazines, etc.

* Theodor W. Adorno ( 1903 – 1969 ), double Ordinarius of philosophy and sociology and member of the Frankfurt School

In 1903, Theodor Herzl wrote in his will:

In August 1903 he met with Theodor Herzl in Saint Petersburg, discussing the establishment of Zionist societies in Russia and proposed a Russian government request to the Turks to obtain a charter for Jewish colonisation of Palestine.

The History of Rome () is a multi-volume history of ancient Rome written by Theodor Mommsen ( 1817 – 1903 ).

During the same period members of the Frankfurt school, such as Theodor W. Adorno ( 1903 – 1969 ) and Max Horkheimer ( 1895 – 1973 ), developed critical theory, integrating the historical materialistic elements of Marxism with the insights of Weber, Freud and Gramsci — in theory, if not always in name — often characterizing capitalist modernity as a move away from the central tenets of enlightenment.