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Chargement... Happiness: A History (original 2006; édition 2005)par Darrin M. McMahon
Information sur l'oeuvreHappiness: A History par Darrin M. McMahon (2006)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. About happiness you can produce a library and stil not get beyond generalities; that's the problem with a container concept, such as ' love ' and ' peace '. This is also evident from this book. This is already quite an extensive book, and yet it covers only what great thinkers in Western history have written about happiness. This is intellectual history 'pur sang', at most a study of the "intellectual concept of happiness". For those that love this kind of approach, this certainly is a successful book, with fine text analysis and a broad overview of the Western philosophical tradition. But a true history of mankind's search for happiness, this is not. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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 carried out since the eighteenth century. He investigates that fundamental transformation by synthesizing two thousand years of politics, culture, and thought. In ancient Greek tragedy, happiness was considered a gift of the gods. During the Enlightenment men and women were first introduced to the novel prospect that they could--in fact should--be happy in this life as opposed to the hereafter. This recognition of happiness as a motivating ideal led to its consecration in the Declaration of Independence. McMahon then shows how our modern search continues to generate new forms of pleasure, but also, paradoxically, new forms of pain.--From publisher description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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