The Agitation of Adorno

In 1968 the progressive was attacked as reactionary

In a November 4, 1968, letter to Günter Grass, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno (1903-69) made an observation about his student, Hans-Jürgen Krahl — a leader of the protest-happy German Socialist Students' League — that might resonate with many a faculty member of that era.

"If you were to see him in a seminar," Adorno observed of Krahl (the Frankfurt equivalent of the better-known firebrand

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