LEADER 03629nam 22006015 450 001 9910483190403321 005 20200920024714.0 010 $a3-319-04403-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-04403-3 035 $a(CKB)2560000000148895 035 $a(EBL)1697656 035 $a(OCoLC)878921173 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001204860 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11798926 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001204860 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11180620 035 $a(PQKB)10629681 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1697656 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-04403-3 035 $a(PPN)178316946 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000148895 100 $a20140407d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCritical Perspectives in Happiness Research $eThe Birth of Modern Happiness /$fby Luka Zevnik 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (165 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-04402-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Towards a Critical Perspective in Happiness Research -- Chapter 1. Overview of Happiness Research -- Chapter 2. Happiness, Culture and Relations of Power -- Chapter 3. The Return to Happiness: A New Interdisciplinary Approach to Happiness Research -- Chapter 4. Middle Ages: The Time before Happiness -- Chapter 5. The Origins of Happiness in Renaissance and Reformation -- Chapter 6. The Birth of Modern Happiness -- Chapter 7. The Evolution of Happiness: Development of Happiness from its Birth to its Contemporary Manifestations -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Modernization as the Collective Pursuit of Happiness. . 330 $aThis book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the origins of happiness in the modern Western culture and makes the argument that happiness is not universal but is instead a culturally and historically specific experience, characteristic only to the Western world. It begins with an overview of the main research approaches to happiness and then studies the important but elusive theme in the context of culture and relations of power. The second part of the book analyses the social, religious, ethical and political processes that lead to the emergence of the experience of happiness, including consumer culture in contemporary societies. It presents an analysis of the medieval Christian experience which concludes that the modern experience of happiness only emerged in the 17th and 18th century, when the ideal of human existence increasingly started to be pursued in the present life. In its conclusion, this book explores the concept of modernization as the collective pursuit of happiness. 606 $aQuality of life 606 $aPositive psychology 606 $aQuality of Life Research$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X23000 606 $aPositive Psychology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y44000 615 0$aQuality of life. 615 0$aPositive psychology. 615 14$aQuality of Life Research. 615 24$aPositive Psychology. 676 $a150.1988 676 $a152.42 676 $a300 676 $a306 700 $aZevnik$b Luka$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01229768 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483190403321 996 $aCritical Perspectives in Happiness Research$92854620 997 $aUNINA