To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric."
One tome by this thinker ends with a series of attacks against occultism, stating that it is the metaphysics of the knuckleheads. This author dedicated that book, which takes its title from a treatise by Aristotle, to "the Melancholy Silence." An essay in his volume Prisms contains his aphorism "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric." This musicologist studied under Alban Berg in his youth and advised Thomas Mann during the writing of Doktor Faustus. His philosophical works include some (*) "reflections on damaged life," Minima Moralia, as well a collaborative treatise that argued public taste is shaped by the culture industry. For 10 points, name this man who collaborated with Max Horkheimer on The Dialectic of Enlightenment, a leading member of the Frankfurt School.
One tome by this thinker ends with a series of attacks against occultism, stating that it is the metaphysics of the knuckleheads.
Theodor Adorno