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100	1		_aGordon, Peter Eli, _eauthor. _9755455
245	1	2	_aA precarious happiness : _bAdorno and the sources of normativity
260			_aChicago, USA: _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c2023.
264		1	_c2023.
300			_axxi, 281p. ; 24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
365			_b40.00 _cUSD
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Against gnosticism -- Immanent critique -- Human flourishing -- Materialism and nature -- From metaphysics to morality -- Aesthetic theory -- Aesthetic experience -- Conclusion: Social criticism today.
520			_a"Readers of Theodor Adorno often have understood him as a "totalizing negativist." If it truly is the case that Adorno saw modern society as a realm of complete falsehood, however, his own social theory is unintelligible. In A Precarious Happiness, Peter E. Gordon aims to redeem Adorno from this negativist interpretation by showing that it arises from a basic misunderstanding of his work. Pushing against entrenched interpretations, Gordon argues that Adorno's philosophy is animated by a deep attachment to a concept of happiness or human flourishing, and it is only by virtue of that normative standard that Adorno judges the world a catastrophic failure. Through a comprehensive reading of Adorno's work, A Precarious Happiness shows that in an imperfect world, the available standards of our flourishing are also imperfect. Looking beyond Adorno, Gordon suggests that the practice of social criticism, even if it is directed toward exposing what is "false," cannot succeed without appealing to an unrealized notion of what would be right"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aAdorno, Theodor W., _d1903-1969. _9755456
650		0	_aCritical theory.
650		0	_aNormativity (Ethics) _xPhilosophy. _9755457
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