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T W Adorno 19031969 was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to understanding the pathologies of contemporary society evident in todays climate emergency the financial crash the reappearance of fascism in many countries and the growing instability of the world order

This Very Short Introduction covers Adornos work and life explaining his key philosophical concepts and the philosophical background and historical context of Adornos thinking Andrew Bowie shows how Adornos exploration of why human reason can have irrational consequences led him to rethink basic concepts like nature history and freedom offering alternatives to many ways of thinking about these concepts in contemporary philosophy The book also examines Adornos social theory as well as his highly critical assessments of jazz and modern culture which he considered threatened by the effects of modern capitalism