?Even the biographical individual is a social category?, wrote Adorno. ‘It can only be defined in a living context together with others.’ In this major new biography, Stefan Muller–Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. This authoritative biography ranges across the whole of Adorno?s life and career, from his childhood and student years to his years in emigration in the United States and his return to postwar Germany. At the same time, Muller–Doohm examines the full range of Adorno?s writings on philosophy, sociology, literary theory, music theory and cultural criticism. Drawing on an array of sources from Adorno?s personal correspondence with Horkheimer, Benjamin, Berg, Marcuse, Kracauer and Mann to interviews, notes and both published and unpublished writings, Muller–Doohm situates Adorno?s contributions in the context of his times and provides a...

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