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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Peter Duesberg, Hans Bethe, Peter Drucker, Wolfgang Gentner, Friedwardt Winterberg, Werner Krieglstein, Hans Knoll, Friedrich Bopp, Johann Rafelski, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Lutz Wingert, Giacomo Marramao, Carl Zuckmayer, Gunter Blobel, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Leo Trepp, Reinhard Selten, Karl Stern, Negasso Gidada, Dieter Vieweger, Richard Lehun, Stefan Schaub, Herbert Burkert, Moshe Zilberg, Elisheva Cohen, Wolfgang Bernhard, Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort, Alicja Sakaguchi, Thomas Meyer, Patrice Nganang, Gerald Fowler, Hillel Oppenheimer, Elke Hoff, Yosef Goldschmidt, Shimon Kanovitch, Ruth Moufang, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Norbert Walter, Wilhelm Leber, Arne Johan Vetlesen, Tosun Terzio lu, Sabine Hark, Regina Abelt, Axel Berg, Gregor Amann. Excerpt: Theodor W. Adorno (September 11, 1903 - August 6, 1969) was a German-born international sociologist, philosopher, and musicologist. He was a member of the Frankfurt School of social theory along with Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Jurgen Habermas, and others. He was also the Music Director of the Radio Project from 1937 to 1941, in the U.S. Theodor Ludwig Adorno Wiesengrund was born in Frankfurt as the only child to the wealthy wine merchant Oscar Alexander Wiesengrund (1870-1941, of Jewish descent, converted to Protestantism) and the Catholic singer Maria Barbara, born Calvelli-Adorno. It was the second half of this name that he adopted as his surname upon becoming a naturalised American citizen in the 1930s ("Wiesengrund" was abbreviated to "W"). His musically talented aunt Agathe also lived with the family. The young Adorno passionately engaged the piano. He attended the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium where he did well, graduating at the age of 17 at the top of his class. In his free time he took private lessons ...
