Adorno

You should start with his "Dialektik der Aufklärung" (Dialectic of Enlightment) his Main Opus, which he has written togehter with Max Horkheimer.
One of his main thesis was that the enlightment is developing in a dialectical process between reason/freedom and superstition/tyranny. In his time the superstition was the believe in capitalism, modern technique and science. Adorno combined the theories of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud to the doctrine so called 'Frankfurter Schule'. With this methodological tool the academic youth should be taught to detect the origins of unfreedom, fascism and capitalism.

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Literally the face behind the collapse of the west

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>>2616149
>science is superstition
wut

>>2616168
Read the intro to birth of tradegy

>>2616123
Negative Dialectics/Dialectic of the Enlightenment is probably his best idea. You need a solid understanding of Hegel first.

Basically, history is dialectical but the movement towards more progress can hide within it more irrationality and destruction. Things aren't necessarily getting better.

Then he has a whole critique of culture as 'logic of the same', when styles want to repeat themselves, he thinks this tends towards fascism. He wants some kind of high modernist style which puts implicitly puts difference and destruction in its structure.

It's been a while since I've read him. I'm not convinced the cultural Marxist arguments are that accurate but he definitely did hate mass culture and perceived it all as fascist. But I think this has a lot of problems for Marxists/proletariat. Basically, he hates capitalism and proles equally. A lot of his cultural critiques fall flat as well. He hated jazz and thought it was latently fascist, yet most people who fought the fascists were listening to shitty jazz standards and swing dancing.

Puto calvo.