This book introduces the reader to the ways in which happiness has been explored in philosophy and literature for thousands of years. The multidisciplinary approach of this book will appeal to a variety of readers from literary studies, critical theory, philosophy and psychology and anyone with an interest in happiness and theories of emotion.
This book introduces the reader to the ways in which happiness has been explored in philosophy and literature for thousands of years. The multidisciplinary approach of this book will appeal to a variety of readers from literary studies, critical theory, philosophy and psychology and anyone with an interest in happiness and theories of emotion.
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is editor and publisher of the American Book Review, founder and editor of the journal symplok¿, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.
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Introduction 1. The Brave New World of Well-Being: Happiness as a Commodity from Huxley and Alain to Pharrell and Oprah 2. Happiness No Thanks!: Psychoanalysis Philosophy and the Critique of Happiness from Freud to iek 3. The Happiness of the Text: Morality Writing and the Pursuit of Pleasure from Gide to Barthes 4. Real Happiness is Revolutionary: Badiou Antiphilosophy and the Metaphysics of Happiness from Spinoza and Pascal to Mallarmé and Beckett
Introduction 1. The Brave New World of Well-Being: Happiness as a Commodity from Huxley and Alain to Pharrell and Oprah 2. Happiness No Thanks!: Psychoanalysis Philosophy and the Critique of Happiness from Freud to iek 3. The Happiness of the Text: Morality Writing and the Pursuit of Pleasure from Gide to Barthes 4. Real Happiness is Revolutionary: Badiou Antiphilosophy and the Metaphysics of Happiness from Spinoza and Pascal to Mallarmé and Beckett
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