TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freyenhagen,Fabian
TI  - Adorno's Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly 
T2  - Modern European Philosophy
SN  - 9781139567763 (ebook)
AV  - B3199.A34 F74 2013
U1  - 193 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Ethics
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Adorno notoriously asserted that there is no 'right' life in our current social world. This assertion has contributed to the widespread perception that his philosophy has no practical import or coherent ethics, and he is often accused of being too negative. Fabian Freyenhagen reconstructs and defends Adorno's practical philosophy in response to these charges. He argues that Adorno's deep pessimism about the contemporary social world is coupled with a strong optimism about human potential, and that this optimism explains his negative views about the social world, and his demand that we resist and change it. He shows that Adorno holds a substantive ethics, albeit one that is minimalist and based on a pluralist conception of the bad - a guide for living less wrongly. His incisive study does much to advance our understanding of Adorno, and is also an important intervention into current debates in moral philosophy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139567763
ER  -