Gordon Peter E. - A Precarious Happiness Adorno And The Sources Of Normativity - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno's work as a critique animated by happiness. " Gordon's confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno's negativism." J rgen 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.
Title: A Precarious Happiness Adorno And The Sources Of Normativity
Author(s): Gordon Peter E.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226828572
Pages: 320 Pages, 4 Line Drawings
Publication Date: 1/2/2024
Category: Society & Culture: General