Adorno

List of Figures.
 
List of Plates.
 
Preface.
 
Acknowledgements.
 
Illustration Acknowledgements.
 
Part I. Origins: Family, Childhood and Youth: School and University in Frankfurt am Main.
 
Family Inheritance: A Picture of Contracts.
 
1. Adorno's Corsican Grandfather: Jean François, alias Giovanni Francesco.
 
2. Wiesengrund: The Jewish Heritage of his Father's Romantic Name.
 
3. Between Oberrad and Amorbach.
 
4. Education Sentimentale.
 
Part II. A Change of Scene: Between Frankfurt, Vienna and Berlin: A Profusion of Intellectual Interests.
 
Commuting Between Philosophy and Music.
 
5. Against the Stream: The City of Frankfurt and its University.
 
6. A Man with Philosophical Qualities in the World of Viennese Music: The Danube Metropolis.
 
7. In Search of Career.
 
8. Music Criticism and Compositional Practice.
 
9. Towards a Theory of Aesthetics.
 
10. A Second Anomaly in Frankfurt: The Institute of Social Research.
 
Part III. Emigration Years: An Itellectual in Foreign Land.
 
A Twofold Exile: Intellectual Homelessness as Personal Fate.
 
11. The 'Coordination" of the National Socialist Nation and Adorno's Reluctant Emigration.
 
12. Between Academic and Authentic Concerns: From Philosophy Lecturer to Advanced Students in Oxford.
 
13. Writing Letters as an aid to Philosophical.
 
14. Learning by Doing: Adorno's Path to Social Research.
 
15. Happiness in Misfortune: Adorno's Years in California.
 
Part IV: Thinking the Unconditional and Enduring the Conditional.
 
The Explosive Power of Saying No.
 
16. Change of Scene: Surveying the Ruins.
 
17. Gaining Recognition for Critical Theory: Adorno's Activities in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s.
 
18. Eating Bread: A Theory Devoured by Thought.
 
19. With his Back to the

Stefan Müller-Doohm isProfessor of Sociology at Oldenburg University, Germany.

"Although Adorno died in 1969, we have had to wait more than thirty years for a biography ... Stefan Müller-Doohm's is the most detailed and probably the best. (It has been exceptionally well translated, too.)" Times Literary Supplement

"Stands as a very informative account of Adorno's life, which has much to offer casual readers of Adorno and those with a thorough interest in his work [and] ties a narrative description of Adorno's life to a sensitive understanding of his thought, and of the consistency of his reflection across the different disciplinary boundaries that it traversed ... This book does all the things a biography should." Times Higher Education Supplement

"Exhaustively researched and presented with exemplary balance, Müller-Doohm's re-creation of Adorno's 'damaged life' is fully worthy of its demanding subject. No future student of one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers will be able to ignore this remarkable achievement in intellectual biography." Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley

"Although Adorno died in 1969, we have had to wait more than thirty years for a biography ... Stefan Müller-Doohm's is the most detailed and probably the best. (It has been exceptionally well translated, too.)"
Times Literary Supplement
 
"Stands as a very informative account of Adorno's life, which has much to offer casual readers of Adorno and those with a thorough interest in his work [and] ties a narrative description of Adorno's life to a sensitive understanding of his thought, and of the consistency of his reflection across the different disciplinary boundaries that it traversed ... This book does all the things a biography should."
Times Higher Education Supplement
 
"Exhaustively researched and presented with exemplary balance, Müller-Doohm's re-creation of Adorno's 'damaged life' is fully worthy of its demanding subject. No future student of one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers will be able to ignore this remarkable achievement in intellectual biography."
Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley