Who is Theodor Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (; German: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ʔaˈdɔɐ̯no] (listen); born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a Neo-Marxist German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, and composer.

He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the works of Freud, Marx, and Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, his writings—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951) and Negative Dialectics (1966)—strongly influenced the European New Left.

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It Was A' For Our Rightful King
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1 It was a' for our rightful king
2 That we left fair Scotland's strand;
3 It was a' for our rightful king
4 We e'er saw Irish land,
5 My dear,
6 We e'er saw Irish land.

7 Now a' is done that men can do,
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