"A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature." -- Susan Sontag "The best thoughts of a noble and invigorating mind." -- Observer "A primary intellectual document of this age." -- Sunday Times

Theodor W. Adorno was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1956 until his death in 1969. His works include In Search of Wagner, Quasi Una Fantasia, Aesthetic Theory, Negative Dialectics and (with Max Horkheimer) Dialectic of Enlightenment.