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Theodor Adorno Quotes:

Ocupation: Sociologist

Life: September 11, 1903 - August 6, 1969

Birthday: September 11

Death: August 6

If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.

- Theodor Adorno

source: Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.22, Univ of California Press

topic: Philosophy, Acquiescence, Way, Conniving, Convicts

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