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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828474803321

Autore

Binkley Sam <1963->

Titolo

Happiness as enterprise : an essay on neoliberal life / / Sam Binkley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4384-4985-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

302.5

Soggetti

Happiness

Self-culture

Neoliberalism

Power (Social sciences)

State, The

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The New Happiness""; ""An Essay on Neoliberal Life""; ""Part I: The Hinge of Power""; ""Chapter 1: To Govern Happily""; ""Happiness as Potentiality""; ""Positive Psychology""; ""How to be Happy""; ""Chapter 2: The Emotional Fold""; ""Horizons of Policy""; ""The Folding of Happiness: A Polemic""; ""Part II: When Will I be Happy?""; ""Chapter 3: Time Within Time""; ""Happiness as Generative Temporality""; ""Risk and Resilience""; ""Growth, Strength, and the Temporality of the Living""; ""Chapter 4: Habits of the Happy""; ""Habitus and Conduct""

""Temporalization as Intensification""""Convulsive Temporalities""; ""Part III: The Work of Neoliberal Governmentality""; ""Chapter 5: The Happiness of All and Each""; ""A Genealogy of Happiness""; ""Pure Obedience and Reason of State""; ""Liberalism and the Happiness of Each""; ""Happiness as Social Life""; ""Chapter 6: Interiorities of Social Government""; ""The Event of Happiness""; ""Disciplining Interiority""; ""Intimacy as Equilibrium""; ""Boredom and the Durational Habitus""; ""Chapter 7: The Alchemy of Neoliberalism""; ""Neoliberalism as Destructivist Project""

""Incentivizing Intimacy and the Sociabilities of Neoliberalism""""



Conclusion: Against Asphyxiation""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

"Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory"--Provided by publisher.