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The happiness agenda : a modern obsession / Simon Burnett

Burnett, Simon, 1981-

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 [©2012]

192 S.

Englisch

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?

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;

In: palgraveconnect.com

Print version: The Happiness Agenda

0-230-28956-8 (£65.00 (hbk.)); 978-0-230-28956-7 (£65.00 (hbk.)); 978-1-283-36051-7 (MyiLibrary)

978-0-230-35773-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

015836540

Online-Ausg.

2012

Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource. ISBN 978-0-230-34841-7

978-0-230-34841-7

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

BF575.H27

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LOC-SH: Happiness -- United States ; Happiness ; Applied psychology

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