The happiness agenda : a modern obsession
Simon Burnett
| Year of publication: |
2012
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| Authors: | Burnett, Simon |
| Publisher: |
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Subject: | Zufriedenheit | Satisfaction | Lebensqualität | Quality of life | Welt | World |
Online Resource
| Extent: | 192 S. |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | In: palgraveconnect.com 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; Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource. ISBN 978-0-230-34841-7 |
| ISBN: | 0-230-28956-8 ; 978-0-230-28956-7 ; 978-1-283-36051-7 ; 978-0-230-34841-7 ; 978-0-230-35773-0 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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