A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity Hardcover – January 2, 2024
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| Management number | 220809295 | Release Date | 2026/05/03 | List Price | $12.16 | Model Number | 220809295 | ||
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A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno’s work as a critique animated by happiness―now in paperback."Gordon’s confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno’s 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 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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 0226828573 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0226828572 |
| Edition | First Edition |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
| Dimensions | 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.2 pounds |
| Print length | 320 pages |
| Publication date | January 2, 2024 |
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