Prekäres Glück: Adorno und die Quellen der Normativität: Peter Gordon im Gespräch

More than fifty years after Theodor W. Adorno’s death, the nature of his legacy is still highly controversial. Many see him as a philosopher of uncompromising negativity, gnostic darkness and all-encompassing criticism lacking clear criteria and standards. The historian and philosopher Peter E. Gordon strongly objects to this image. Adorno, he argues, must be read as a theorist whose practice of criticism is oriented towards an as yet unrealized norm of human flourishing – a precarious happiness in a radically imperfect world.

The talk will be held in English.