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Autore: |
Burnett Simon <1981->
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Titolo: |
The happiness agenda : a modern obsession / / Simon Burnett
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2012. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 pages) |
Disciplina: | 302/.1 |
Soggetto topico: | Happiness |
Happiness - United States | |
Classificazione: | BUS085000BUS097000PSY021000SOC026000 |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The happiness agenda ![]() |
ISBN: | 9780230348417 |
1-283-36051-9 | |
9786613360519 | |
0-230-34841-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807672603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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