A precarious happiness: Adorno and the sources of normativity
"Readers of Theodor Adorno often have understood him as a "totalizing negativist." If it truly is the case that Adorno saw modern society as a realm of complete falsehood, however, his own social theory is unintelligible. In 'A Precarious Happiness', Peter E. Gordon aims to...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Readers of Theodor Adorno often have understood him as a "totalizing negativist." If it truly is the case that Adorno saw modern society as a realm of complete falsehood, however, his own social theory is unintelligible. In 'A Precarious Happiness', Peter E. Gordon aims to redeem Adorno from this negativist interpretation by showing that it arises from a basic misunderstanding of his work. Pushing against entrenched interpretations, Gordon argues that Adorno's philosophy is animated by a deep attachment to a concept of happiness or human flourishing, and it is only by virtue of that normative standard that Adorno judges the world a catastrophic failure. Through a comprehensive reading of Adorno's work, 'A Precarious Happiness' shows that in an imperfect world, the available standards of our flourishing are also imperfect. Looking beyond Adorno, Gordon suggests that the practice of social criticism, even if it is directed toward exposing what is "false," cannot succeed without appealing to an unrealized notion of what would be right." |
| Beschreibung: | xxi, 281 Seiten Notenbeispiele 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780226828572 |
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Contents Preface to the English Edition: Adorno’s Legacy xiii Introduction: Against Gnosticism The Negativist Interpretation Performative Contradiction Honneth and Recognition Living Less Wrongly Social Uniformity The Challenge of Self-Reflexivity Presuppositions of Public Criticism The Possibility of Immanent Critique The Question of Exaggeration Marx’s Critical Method The Idea of Normative Surplus Aesthetics and Dialectical Immanence The Stakes of Social Criticism Temporality and Normativity Concluding Remarks i 1 Immanent Critique Beethoven’s Fidelio The Micrological Glance The Non-Identical Non-Identity and Critique Rehearsals of the Right Life Immanent and Transcendent Critique Immanent Transcendence 41 41 45 46 50 54 57 63 2 Human Flourishing The Emphatic Concept of the Human Being Dialectical Contradiction The Normative Status of Emphatic Concepts Normativity and Damage 69 71 75 79 84 3 7 11 15 18 20 23 25 27 30 32 35 36 37 39
Nietzsche, Genealogy, Validity Happiness and Human Flourishing Happiness and the Limits of Formalism 89 94 99 3 Materialism and Nature The Critical Appropriation ofMarxianThemes The Priority of the Object The Turn to Experience Openness and Vulnerability The Nature in Human Nature Three Illustrations The Redemption of Human Nature 105 106 109 113 116 118 121 125 4 From Metaphysics to Morality Need and Desire Mimesis and Materialism Metaphysical Experience A Materialist Morality The Postulate of the Highest Good Happiness and Suffering 127 128 130 132 137 139 142 5 Aesthetic Theory The Persistence of the Aura The Sign of Freedom The Analogy to Play Art and Suffering Autonomy and Heteronomy Jazz, Suffering, Hope A Dialectic of Secularization 144 146 149 151 154 156 158 160 6 Aesthetic Experience Preliminary Comment on Late Style First Musical Example: Beethoven Opus125 Second Musical Example: Beethoven Opus 130 Third Musical Example: Mahler Symphony no. 3 in D Minor Fourth Musical Example: The SecondViennese School Une promesse du bonheur Aesthetic Experience and Social Critique 162 164 167 170 174 178 183 190 Conclusion: Social Criticism Today Normativity in Social Theory Anti-Foundationalism and Precarity Fascism and Vulnerability Never Again Auschwitz Anti-Humanism and Genealogy 192 193 195 196 200 205
Prousts Theological Idea Sources and Justifications Thinking and Happiness Acknowledgments 217 List of Abbreviations 223 Notes 229 Index 277 209 213 215 |
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