{"product_id":"precarious-happiness-a","title":"Precarious Happiness, A","description":"A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno’s work as a critique animated by happiness—now in paperback. \"Gordon’s confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno’s negativism.\"—Jürgen 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 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, A Precarious Happiness 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":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58469112217935,"sku":"9780226854441","price":48.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/precarious-happiness-a","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}