Precarious Happiness Adorno and the Sources of Normativity

Informationen zum Autor Peter E. Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History and faculty affiliate in philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of many books, most recently Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization . Klappentext 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter E. Gordon, Gordon Peter E.
• Verlag: University Of Chicago Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2024
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke
• EAN: 9780226828572
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82857-2
• Anzahl Seiten: 320
• Themen: happiness, Musicology, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Society & culture: general, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, morality, Critique, Materialism, Theodor Adorno, Philosophy: aesthetics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Metaphysics, Normativity, negativity, human flourishing