The happiness riddle and the quest for a good life / Mark Cieslik.
This book examines the meaning of happiness in Britain today, and observes that although we face challenges such as austerity, climate change and disenchantment with politics, we continue to be interested in happiness and living well. The author illustrates how happiness is a far more contested, soc...
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This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the happiness riddle
- Philosophy and the history of happiness
- The economics of happiness
- Positive psychology and happiness
- Psychoanalytical theory and happiness
- Sociological approaches to happiness
- Happines and young people
- The 'thirty somethings' : happiness in the late twenties and thirties
- Happiness in mid life
- Happiness in old age
- Conclusions : making sense of the happiness riddle.