Adorno taught innovative seminars built on students’ everyday experiences.

Evidence

For years on end, Adorno gave his seminars and lectures in philosophy and sociology on Tuesdays and Thursdaysamong them original sociological events such as a laughter seminar and a quarrel seminar, using students’ everyday experiences as a starting-point; he also regularly gave a philosophy seminar for advanced students (`Philosophisches Hauptseminar’) jointly with Horkheimer. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 632

Categorization

• CANDY: Adorno genuinely ran a laughter seminar and a quarrel seminar — an elevator-ready fact for anyone who knows him only as the dour theorist.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s postwar Marx turn began with a 1957-8 teaching seminar on economy and society — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1110
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno’s postwar Marx turn began with a 1957-8 teaching seminar on economy and society — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1110