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Author Zevnik, Luka, author

Title Critical Perspectives in Happiness Research : the Birth of Modern Happiness / Luka Zevnik
Published Cham : Springer, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 158 pages)
Contents PART I. THE RETURN TO HAPPINESS -- 1. Overview of Happiness Research -- 2. Happiness, Culture and Relations of Power -- 3. The Return to Happiness: A New Interdisciplinary Approach to Happiness Research -- PART II. THE BIRTH OF HAPPINESS -- 4. Middle Ages: The Time Before Happiness -- 5. The Origins of Happiness in Renaissance and Reformation -- 6. The Birth of Modern Happiness -- 7. The Evolution of Happiness: Development of Happiness from its Birth to its Contemporary Manifestations -- 8. Conclusion: Modernization as the Collective Pursuit of Happiness
Summary "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."--Publisher's description
Analysis psychologie
psychology
kwaliteit van het leven
quality of life
interdisciplinair onderzoek
interdisciplinary research
sociale wetenschappen
social sciences
Social Sciences (General)
Sociale wetenschappen (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and index
Notes Print version record and online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 15, 2016)
Subject Happiness.
Civilization, Modern.
Happiness
PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Happiness
Civilization, Modern
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783319044033
3319044036
1306702097
9781306702096