{"product_id":"a-precarious-happiness-peter-e-gordon-9780226828572","title":"A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity","description":"\u003cb\u003eA strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno's work as a critique animated by happiness. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Gordon's confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno's negativism.\"--J?gen Habermas \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eA Precarious Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter E. Gordon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226828573\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226828572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Peter E. Gordon","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44716653773055,"sku":"9780226828572","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c532e88f-3dd7-49d1-8243-12f65beaa25f.jpg?v=1705683171","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-precarious-happiness-peter-e-gordon-9780226828572","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}