Precarious Happiness (Peter E. Gordon)

Series: Philosophy & Critical Theory

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

Peter Gordon reads Adorno’s criticism through the possibility of human happiness.

He argues that damaged social conditions do not eliminate every trace of flourishing.

Adorno’s philosophy and aesthetics preserve fragments of a better life within an imperfect world.

These fragments help explain the standards that give social criticism its force.

The book challenges interpretations that treat Adorno’s thought as wholly negative.

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