Gebundenes Buch

The Oxford Handbook of the Positive Humanities

Beschreibung

This book reviews and synthesizes the theories, research, and empirical evidence between human flourishing and the humanities broadly, including history, literary studies, philosophy, religious studies, music, art, theatre, and film. Via multidisciplinary essays, this book expands our understanding of how the humanities contribute to the theory and science of well-being by considering historical trends, conceptual ideas, and wide-ranging interdisciplinary drivers between positive psychology and the arts.

Autor

Louis Tay is the William C. Byham Associate Professor in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Purdue University. He is coeditor of Big Data in Psychological Research and the Handbook of Well-Being. He served as the Founding Research Director of the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project and is the founder of ExpiWell, a technology platform for experience sampling research and well-being development. James O. Pawelski is a Professor of Practice and the Director of Education in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the Founding Director of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology Program and the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project, which has been designated a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab. As a philosopher who has worked in positive psychology and related areas for more than twenty years, he has authored and edited four books for academic and lay audiences and is the editor of the Oxford University Press book series on the Humanities and Human Flourishing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 187mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1220g
• ISBN-13: 9780190064570
• ISBN-10: 0190064579
• Artikelnr.: 63463397