A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity

by Peter E. Gordon

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

"Gordon's confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno's negativism."--J rgen 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226828573
• ISBN13: 9780226828572
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"