Editing Theodor W. Adorno (section)

===Adorno's responses to his critics===
[[File:Ffm-adorno-ampel001.jpg|thumb|276px|right|The "[[Adorno traffic light]]" on Senckenberganlage, a street which divides the Institute for Social Research from the [[University of Frankfurt am Main]]. Adorno requested its construction after a pedestrian death in 1962, and it was finally installed 25 years later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rezensionen.ch/buchbesprechungen/frank-berger-christian-setzepfandt-101-unorte-in-frankfurt/3797312482.html|title=Frankfurt gnadenlos entdecken|access-date=2012-12-16|author1=Berger, Frank |author2=Setzepfandt, Christian |date=2011-05-07|website=rezensionen.ch}}</ref>]]
As a pioneer of a self-reflexive sociology who prefigured [[Bourdieu]]'s ability to factor in the effect of reflection on the societal object, Adorno realized that some criticism (including deliberate disruption of his classes in the 1960s) could never be answered in a dialogue between equals if, as he seems to have believed, what the naive ethnographer or sociologist thinks of a human essence is always changing over time.<ref>For a comparison of Adorno's and Bourdieu's rather divergent conceptions of reflexivity, see: Karakayali, Nedim (April 2004). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0038038504040869 "Reading Bourdieu with Adorno: The Limits of Critical Theory and Reflexive Sociology"], ''[[Sociology (journal)|Sociology]]'' (Journal of the British Sociological Association), '''38'''(2), pp. 351–368.</ref>