Critical happiness studies. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nicholas Hill, Svend Brinkmann and Anders Petersen.
• Editors: (Sociologist), Hill, Nicholas; Brinkmann, Svend; Petersen, Anders, 1973-
• Contents: Critical happiness studies: an invitation NICHOLAS HILL, SVEND BRINKMANN AND ANDERS PETERSEN PART I Fantastical happiness: an impossible ideal 1 Happiness, a moralistic fantasy CARL CEDERSTRÖM 2 ‘Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof’: understanding the pursuit of happiness as ideology ANDERS PETERSEN 3 ‘The sickness unto health’: self-reification, self-love, and the critique of happiness in contemporary life ALASTAIR MORGAN PART II The political and social effects of happiness 4 Hijacking the language of functionality? In praise of ‘negative’ emotions against happiness EDGAR CABANAS AND EVA ILLOUZ 5 Happiness and the new politicization of subjectivity GRANT DUNCAN 6 Happiness: a societal ‘imperative’? LAURA HYMAN 7 ‘It’s the soul that needs the surgery’? The social life of (un)happiness NICHOLAS HILL PART III Resources for critical happiness studies 8 Living well and living right: aesthetic and ethical dimensions of happiness SVEND BRINKMANN 9 Sociology, biographical research, and the development of critical happiness studies MARK CIESLIK 10 Drowning in liquidity: Zygmunt Bauman on happiness, ambivalence, and security JORDAN MCKENZIE 11 Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis COLIN WRIGHT
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 198 pages)
• Subjects: 302/.1; Happiness; Quality of life; Happiness; Quality of life; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780203730119; 0203730119; 9781351397049; 1351397044; 9781351397056; 1351397052; 9781351397032; 1351397036
• Related ISBNs: 9781138304437
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 15, 2020).
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