{"product_id":"a-precarious-happiness","title":"A Precarious Happiness","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":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499149795701,"sku":"9780226854441","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/a-precarious-happiness","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}