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Critical Happiness Studies

By Nicholas Hill , Svend Brinkmann and Anders Petersen

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
2019036878, 2019036879, 9781138304437, 9780203730119
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1419658 bytes)
Pages
\209
Time added
2021-04-11 00:03:21

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Critical happiness studies: an invitation PART I Fantastical happiness: an impossible ideal 1 Happiness, a moralistic fantasy 2 'Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof': understanding the pursuit of happiness as ideology 3 'The sickness unto health': self-reification, self-love, and the critique of happiness in contemporary life PART II The political and social effects of happiness 4 Hijacking the language of functionality? In praise of 'negative' emotions against happiness 5 Happiness and the new politicization of subjectivity 6 Happiness: a societal 'imperative'? 7 'It's the soul that needs the surgery'? The social life of (un)happiness PART III Resources for critical happiness studies 8 Living well and living right: aesthetic and ethical dimensions of happiness 9 Sociology, biographical research, and the development of critical happiness studies 10 Drowning in liquidity: Zygmunt Bauman on happiness, ambivalence, and security 11 Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis Index

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