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Adorno is one of the representative figures of twentieth-century Western Marxism and critical theory. Publicly available information about him is limited, so his biographical details are not elaborated here. Judging from the ten works held in this collection, his writing spans philosophy, aesthetics, moral philosophy, and social and cultural criticism. Negative Dialectics, Introduction to Dialectics, and Lectures on Negative Dialectics present his thought of non-identity and his reconstruction of dialectics; Aesthetic Theory (revised translation) and On Wagner and Mahler reveal his deep grounding in music and the arts; while Minima Moralia, The Jargon of Authenticity, and Problems of Moral Philosophy direct his critique at everyday ethics and German ideology. His style is dense and highly speculative, with carefully chosen terminology, often unfolding in aphoristic and lecture forms. His reflections on modernity and Enlightenment rationality have had a profound influence, and his works are classified under philosophy readings, social science, and Western philosophy.