ISBN:
0230289568
,
9780230289567
,
9781283360517
Language:
English
Pages:
192 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Online-Ressource Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource. ISBN 978-0-230-34841-7
Parallel Title:
Print version The Happiness Agenda
DDC:
302/.1
Keywords:
Happiness
;
Happiness
;
Applied psychology
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Explores why contemporary Anglo-American society is obsessed with happiness. Striving to be happy is now a morally imperative pursuit. Through the lens of novel social theory, this book explicates how this has transpired as consequence of a complex 'conspiracy of coordination' between political, organisational and psychological developments
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Modern myths; Pursuing happiness; 1 The happy adventures of capital; The culture of capital: an overview; A reflexive complexity; The power of subjects and objects; (Too) fast subjects; The cultural circuits of happiness; 2 A happy policy; An ancient problem, and its modern fix; The utility of happiness; The utility of Utility; Historians repeat each other, history repeats itself; The political need for happiness; 3 Happiness loves company; Theoretical origins; A modern-day assumption; Happy workers?
Description / Table of Contents:
Champions of the new human relations4 Positively happy; The Manhattan Project; Principles of positivity; Historical and conceptual origins; A mainstream counter-culture; 5 Happy days; Knowing happiness; The happy death of god; 6 Happiness needs practice; 7 Happy ever after?; References; Index;
Note:
In: palgraveconnect.com
,
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource. ISBN 978-0-230-34841-7
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Permalink
