Stefan Müller-Doohm, a professor at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, has written the first intellectual biography of Adorno, to be published by Suhrkamp in September and appear simultaneously in their translations into Castilian, English, French, Italian and Japanese. For years, scholars have known Adorno in his life more than a set of data, dates and places, or what some friends, colleagues and disciples have been writing about him, beyond these fragments, were not available a reconstruction of his life and development of their ideas, and as Müller-Doohm announced years ago his company to write the first biography, has been on tenterhooks the whole community of scholars and readers of Adorno. The wait is worth it. In an intense research effort, sometimes almost detective-Doohm Müller has followed Adorno for all seasons of his career life, musical and philosophical, and rebuilt as the least known aspects of the life of this great philosopher and composer, as the gestation of their works and their relationship with other great thinkers of his time. The result is a magnificent book that is read with pleasure, an intense story-Doohm Stefan Müller, professor at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, has written the first intellectual biography of Adorno, to be published by Suhrkamp in September and appear simultaneously in their translations into Castilian, English, French, Italian and Japanese. For years, scholars have known Adorno in his life more than a set of data, dates and places, or what some friends, colleagues and disciples have been writing about him, beyond these fragments, were not available a reconstruction of his life and development of their ideas, and as Müller-Doohm announced years ago his company to write the first biography, has been on tenterhooks the whole community of scholars and readers of Adorno. The wait is worth it. philosophers, sociologists, writers, musicians, art theorists ... Intelligent general public that reconstructs one of the most interesting lives of the last century and tells, in fact, a piece of the history of twentieth-century European culture.