Regimes of Happiness (eBook, ePUB)

Comparative and Historical Studies
Redaktion: Contreras-Vejar, Yuri; Turner, Bryan S; Jen, Joanna Tice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Regimes of Happiness' is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783088874
• Artikelnr.: 56797455

Autorenporträt

Yuri Contreras-Vejar is professor of sociology at Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. He is also a member of the Committee for the Study of Religion at the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. Joanna Tice Jen is a member of the political science faculty at Las Positas College, USA. She received her PhD in political science from the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, in 2017. Bryan S. Turner is professor of sociology at the Australian Catholic University, emeritus professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, and honorary professor, Social Science Faculty, Potsdam University, Germany. He won the Max Planck Award in 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Reflections on Regimes of Happiness, Bryan S. Turner and Yuri
Contreras-Véjar; Happiness in the West; A Fragment of Bliss: Augustinian
Beatitudo and the Ideal of Atonement, Yuri Contreras-Véjar; Arts of
Happiness and Love: Translating Aristotle in the Later Middle Ages, Jessica
Rosenfeld; Spiritual Transcendence as the Path to Happiness in a Selection
of Old French Texts, Stephanie Grace Petinos; St. Francis and Machiavelli
on Happiness and Joy, William J. Connell; The Concept of Happiness Prevents
Facile Definitions in the Scottish Enlightenment, Megan Hills; A Path to
Eternal Happiness: Convent Life in the United States in the Nineteenth
Century, Bernadette McCauley; "Be Joyful Always!" Twenty-First-Century
Evangelical Conceptions of Happiness and Trumpist Politics, Joanna
Tice-Jen; The Erasmus Program: The Promise of European Happiness, Davide
Giuseppe Colasanto; Innovations in the Psychological Study of
Happiness: From Mirror Neurons to Mobile Technology, Samantha Birk,
Samantha Denefrio and Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary; Comparative Perspectives; And
You Should Be Nothing but Happy: Judaism and the Dual Approach to Joy, Marc
Katz; Happiness in Medieval Islamicate Literature: Conceptual and Practical
Problems, Anna Akasoy; From Liberation to Happiness: The Making of Modern,
Middle-Class Yoga, Shehzad Nadeem; The Pursuit of Happiness in Vietnam,
Nguy¿n Tün Anh and Oscar Salemink; Indigenous and Western Views of
Happiness: An Essay on the Politics of Contentment, Colin Samson; A
Nineteenth-Century Turning Point: Nietzsche, Weber, Freud and Mill, Bryan
S. Turner; Index.