| Description |
1 online resource (x, 244 pages) |
| Contents |
Life as a dream and a lie -- The golden age and after? -- The disciplines of beatitude -- The bittersweet saga of dullness -- The extremists of routine -- Real life is not absent -- "The fat, prosperous elevation of the average, the mediocre" -- What is happiness for some is kitsch for others -- If money doesn't make you happy, give it back! -- The crime of suffering -- Impossible wisdom -- Conclusion Madame Verdurin's croissant |
| Summary |
Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion--one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating principle of the Enlightenment--the right to pursue happiness--become the unavoidable and burdensome responsibility to be happy? How did we become unhappy about not being happy--and what might we do to escape this predicament? In Perpetual Euphoria, Pascal Bruckner takes up these questions wit |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Happiness -- History -- 19th century
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Happiness -- History -- 20th century
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Happiness -- Social aspects
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
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Happiness
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Happiness -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400835973 |
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1400835976 |
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1282645080 |
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9781282645080 |
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0691143730 |
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9780691143736 |
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