Happiness : a history /
An intellectual history of man's most elusive yet coveted goal. Today, we think of happiness as a natural right, but people haven't always felt this way. Historian McMahon argues that our modern belief in happiness is a recent development, the product of a revolution in human expectations...
| Основен автор: | McMahon, Darrin M. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
2006.
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Table of contents only Book jacket |
Съдържание:
- Introduction : the tragedy of happiness
- The highest good
- Perpetual felicity
- From heaven to earth
- Self-evident truths
- A modern rite
- Questioning the evidence
- Liberalism and its discontents
- Building happy worlds
- Joyful science
- Conclusion : happy ending.