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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819910703321

Autore

Freyenhagen Fabian

Titolo

Adorno's practical philosophy : living less wrongly / / Fabian Freyenhagen, University of Essex [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-24181-2

1-139-89170-7

1-107-25132-X

1-107-54302-9

1-139-56776-4

1-107-25049-8

1-107-24883-3

1-107-24800-0

1-107-24966-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Modern European philosophy

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. The whole is untrue -- 2. No right living -- 3. Social determination and negative freedom -- 4. Adorno's critique of moral philosophy -- 5. A new categorical imperative -- 6. An ethics of resistance -- 7. Justification, vindication, and explanation -- 8. Negativism defended -- 9. Adorno's negative Aristotelianism -- Appendix: the jolt: Adorno on spontaneous willing.

Sommario/riassunto

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.