H. P. Grice and Theodor Adorno

Adorno, Theodor, Frankfurt-born philosopher, sociologist, and musicologist, a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His most important work, Negative Dialectics, is a critique of thinking based on identity and the presentation of a negative dialectic of non-identity that has exerted great influence on postmodern and post-structuralist thought. He was co-author of The Authoritarian Personality (1950), a study of the psychological origins of fascism and Nazism. With Horkheimer, he published Dialectic of the Enlightenment (1947), which traces totalitarianism and scientism in modern society to the Enlightenment conception of reason. He criticized Husserl in Against Epistemology (1956) and Heidegger in The Jargon of Authenticity (1965). His Aesthetic Theory was left unfinished at his death.