{"product_id":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Gordon’s confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno’s negativism.\"—Jürgen Habermas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48259793322224,"sku":"9780226828572","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226828572_p0.jpg?v=1763675332","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226828572","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}