{"product_id":"9780226828572-a-precarious-happiness-adorno-and-the-sources-of-normativity","title":"Gordon Peter E. - A Precarious Happiness Adorno And The Sources Of Normativity - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: A Precarious Happiness Adorno And The Sources Of Normativity\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Gordon Peter E.\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: The University Of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780226828572\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 320 Pages, 4 Line Drawings\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/2\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Society \u0026amp; Culture: General","brand":"Gordon Peter E.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49593432703281,"sku":"IN-G-9780226828572","price":42.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780226828572.jpg?v=1753226053","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780226828572-a-precarious-happiness-adorno-and-the-sources-of-normativity","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}