Perspectives on Happiness (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 121)

✍ Scribed by Søren Harnow Klausen

Publisher: Brill | Rodopi
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 179
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Happiness is a challenging, multifaceted topic, which obviously calls for an interdisciplinary approach. This work is a collection of papers which explores the phenomenon of happiness from a variety of angles, and from both theoretical and practical perspectives. They deal with the general nature and conditions of happiness, methods and measures for studying happiness, the consequences of happiness policies and discourses and the significance of specific factors, like landscapes or educational environments, for happiness. Some of the papers investigate the thoughts of ancient, 19th-century or 20th-century philosophers. Others employ theories and techniques from contemporary psychology to get a firmer grip on the elusive phenomenon of happiness. Contributors include Ranjeeta Basu, Valeriu Budeanu, Sarah A. Bushey, Mustafa Cihan Camci, Emily Corrigan-Kavanagh, Carolina Escobar-Tello, Julia Hotz, Søren Harnow Klausen, Kathy Pui Ying Lo, Andrea-Mariana Marian, Bryon Martin, Andrew Molas, Sean Moran, Liza Ortiz, Shelomi Panditharatne, Sheila M. Rucki, Jane Russel-O'Connor and Marie Thomas.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Happiness in the Routine of Everyday Life
Against ‘Feeling Good’: Aristotle’s Concept
of Happiness (eudaimonia)
Utility, Liberty, and the State’s Duty to Promote Flourishing
What Makes College Students Happy? A Day Reconstruction Study
Hegemonic Systems and the Politics of Happiness: the Fairy Tale as Ideology
Using Art Therapy Techniques to Explore Home Life Happiness
What Is the Good Life: an Overview of the ‘Good Life’ at the University of Florida
The Vocation Fulfilment: a Driver for Happiness at Work
Classic Cars and Happiness: a Profile of Participants and Their Family, Community and Cultural Health
Happiness and the Structure and Dynamics of Human Life
Quo Vadis: Fullness or Emptiness in the Pursuit of Happiness?
Earthly Happiness and Heavenly Happiness
Happiness in Higher Education in Hong Kong: an Anthropology Study
ReEmbracing Simplicity: an Exploration of Epicurean Happiness
The Subjective WellBeing of Married Women In and Out of the Workforce in Sri Lanka
The Sublime Landscape
Index

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