When1: 1933
When2: 1966
Who: Theodor W. Adorno [Adorno, Theodor W.]
What: psychologist
Where: Frankfurt, Germany
works\ Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic [1933]; Against Epistemology: A Metacritique [1937]; Dialectic of the Enlightenment [1947: with Max Horkheimer]; Minimum Morals [1951]; Jargon of Authenticity [1965]; Negative Dialectics [1966]
Detail: He lived 1903 to 1969, was of Frankfurt School, and studied authoritarian personality. He used dialectical thinking to negate other's ideas.
Aesthetics
Art is not social or political. It is illusion and expresses freedom.
Ethics
People can have middle-class values, condemn value violators, apply values absolutely, emphasize power and authority, deny sexual motives, believe others have strong sexual motives, tend to exploit others, have feelings of being exploited, use stereotyped thinking, and use projection defense mechanism {authoritarian personality, Adorno}.
Metaphysics
Something mediates everything. Nothing is absolute. Reality has things that people cannot conceive.
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