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

• Autore: Freyenhagen Fabian
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetto topico: Ethics
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Adorno's practical philosophy
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819910703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Modern European philosophy.