Critical Happiness Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hill, Nicholas; Petersen, Anders; Brinkmann, Svend

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume draws together the work of a diverse range of thinkers and researchers to address the question of happiness critically, using a wide variety of theoretical and empirical methodologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351397049
• Artikelnr.: 58338325

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Hill is an early career researcher located at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. His PhD thesis examined the intersection of happiness and suffering in contemporary life. His wider research focuses on emotions and contemporary life, therapeutic and self-help culture, and experiences of health and illness, particularly mental health. Svend Brinkmann is professor of psychology and qualitative methods and codirector of the Center for Qualitative Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the author of Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life, Qualitative Interviewing and Psychology as a Moral Science, and Diagnostic Cultures and the coauthor of InterViews (Third Edition): Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing. Anders Petersen is associate professor of sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark and coeditor of Imaginative Methodologies: Creativity, Poetics and Rhetoric in Social Research, The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization and Late Modern Subjectivity and Its Discontents: Anxiety, Depression and Alzheimer's Disease.

Inhaltsangabe

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