A Precarious Happiness - Adorno and the Sources of Normativity

A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno’s work as a critique animated by happiness.   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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2024
First published:	2023
Authors:	Peter E. Gordon
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-82857-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-226-82857-3
Barcode:	9780226828572

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