Adorno''s Practical Philosophy - Living Less Wrongly

Informationen zum Autor Fabian Freyenhagen is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is co-editor (with Thom Brooks) of The Legacy of John Rawls (2005) and (with Gordon Finlayson) of Disputing the Political: Habermas and Rawls (2011), and has published in journals such as the Kantian Review, Inquiry, Telos, and Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Klappentext A unique exploration of Adorno's ethics, defending his challenging views about how to live in an evil world. Zusammenfassung This book shows that Adorno holds a substantive ethics! albeit one that is minimalist and based on a pluralist conception of the bad! and is an important intervention into current moral philosophy debates. It will be useful to those studying Adorno and twentieth-century philosophy! Aristotelianism! and the nature of normativity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The whole is untrue; 2. No right living; 3. Social determination and negative freedom; 4. Adorno's critique of moral philosophy; 5. A new categorical imperative; 6. An ethics of resistance; 7. Justification, vindication, and explanation; 8. Negativism defended; 9. Adorno's negative Aristotelianism; Appendix: the jolt - Adorno on spontaneous willing.

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• Authors: Fabian Freyenhagen, Fabian (University of Essex) Freyenhagen, Freyenhagen Fabian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107036543
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Modern European Philosophy; Modern European Philosophy (Ha; Modern European Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -