Description: 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.
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EAN: 9780226828572
UPC: 9780226828572
ISBN: 9780226828572
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Format: Hardback, 320 pages
Author: Gordon, Peter E.
Book Title: A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of
Item Height: 2.3 cm
Item Length: 23.1 cm
Item Weight: 0.54 kg
Item Width: 15.5 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
