Precarious Happiness (eBook)

Adorno and the Sources of Normativity

Peter E. Gordon (Autor)

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2024
320 Seiten
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-82919-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno's work as a critique animated by happiness."e;Gordon s confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno s negativism."e; Jurgen Habermas Theodor Adorno is often portrayed as a totalizing negativist, a scowling contrarian who looked upon modern society with despair. Peter E. Gordon thinks we have this wrong: if Adorno is uncompromising in his critique, it is because he sees in modernity an unfulfilled possibility of human flourishing. In a damaged world, Gordon argues, all happiness is likewise damaged but not wholly absent. Through a comprehensive rereading of Adorno s work, A Precarious Happiness recovers Adorno s commitment to traces of happiness fragments of the good amid the bad. Ultimately, Gordon argues that social criticism, while exposing falsehoods, must also cast a vision for an unrealized better world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.1.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-226-82919-7 / 0226829197
• ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82919-7 / 9780226829197