Adorno : a biography / Stefan Müller-Doohm ; translated by Rodney Livingstone.
Stefan Müller-Doohm 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 th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity Press,
2009.
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| Summary: | Stefan Müller-Doohm 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correspondence with Horkheimer, Benjamin, Berg, Marcuse, Kracauer and Mann to interviews, notes and both published and unpublished writings, Muller-Doohm situates Adorno's contributions in the context of his times and provides a rich and balanced appraisal of his significance in the 20th Century as a whole. - Publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 667 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0745631088 9780745631080 0745631096 9780745631097 |