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Critical Perspectives in Happiness Research
Luka Zevnik
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Springer International Publishing 
Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Allgemeines
Beschreibung
This 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.
Kundenbewertungen
Ethnocentrism and Happiness, Happiness Studies and Life Satisfaction, Empirical Happiness Research, Pursuit of Happiness, Culture and Relations, Public and Communal Happiness, Cultural Construction of Happiness, Critical History of Happiness, Basic Parameters of Happiness, Happiness and Culture, Happiness and Medieval Theology, Understanding of Happiness, Foucault and Happiness, The Birth of Modern Happiness, Happiness and Pastoral Power, Cultural Neuroscience, Eudaimonic Well-Being, Happiness and Consumer Culture, Neoroscience of Happiness, Anthropology of Well-Being, Origins of Happiness in the Western Culture, Positive Timeless Universal Experience, Sin and Salvation, Art of Living, Middle Ages and Happiness, Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Happiness