Theodor W. Adorno
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Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist.
The "Adorno-Ampel" (Adorno-traffic light) on Senckenberganlage, a street which divides the Institute for Social Research from Goethe University Frankfurt—Adorno requested its construction after a pedestrian death in 1962, and it was finally installed 25 years later.
Adorno mural in Frankfurt
Herbert Marcuse
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Herbert Marcuse was a German-American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then at Freiburg, where he received his PhD. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research – what later became known as the Frankfurt School. In his written works, he criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet Communism, and popular culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social control.
Marcuse in 1955
Herbert Marcuse giving a lecture in Berlin, 1967.
Herbert Marcuse and his first wife, Sophie Marcuse, in their New York apartment
Grave in the Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery, Berlin, where Marcuse's ashes were buried in 2003