A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity
English
By (author): Peter E. Gordon
A strikingly original account of Theodor Adornos work as a critique animated by happiness.
Gordons confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adornos negativism.Jürgen 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 Adornos work, A Precarious Happiness recovers Adornos commitment to traces of happinessfragments 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. See more
Gordons confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adornos negativism.Jürgen 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 Adornos work, A Precarious Happiness recovers Adornos commitment to traces of happinessfragments 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. See more
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