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A Precarious Happiness : Adorno and the Sources of Normativity - Peter E. Gordon
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A Precarious Happiness

Adorno and the Sources of Normativity

By: Peter E. Gordon

Paperback | 5 January 2027

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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."—Jurgen 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.

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