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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9781107543027 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
193 |
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Freyenhagen, Fabian |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Adorno's practical philosophy : living less wrongly |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2013 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Cambridge : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xv, 285 p. ; |
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23 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
22.99 |
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GBP |
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108.40 |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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Modern European philosophy |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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. |
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Right life |
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Deep pessimism |
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Optimism |
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Moral Philosophy |
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Herman potential |
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Negative ethics |
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Books |