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Author:   Nicholas Hill ,  Svend Brinkmann ,  Anders Petersen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138304437

ISBN 10:   1138304433
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   05 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Critical happiness studies: an invitation NICHOLAS HILL, SVEND BRINKMANN AND ANDERS PETERSEN PART I Fantastical happiness: an impossible ideal 1 Happiness, a moralistic fantasy CARL CEDERSTRÖM 2 ‘Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof’: understanding the pursuit of happiness as ideology ANDERS PETERSEN 3 ‘The sickness unto health’: self-reification, self-love, and the critique of happiness in contemporary life ALASTAIR MORGAN PART II The political and social effects of happiness 4 Hijacking the language of functionality? In praise of ‘negative’ emotions against happiness EDGAR CABANAS AND EVA ILLOUZ 5 Happiness and the new politicization of subjectivity GRANT DUNCAN 6 Happiness: a societal ‘imperative’? LAURA HYMAN 7 ‘It’s the soul that needs the surgery’? The social life of (un)happiness NICHOLAS HILL PART III Resources for critical happiness studies 8 Living well and living right: aesthetic and ethical dimensions of happiness SVEND BRINKMANN 9 Sociology, biographical research, and the development of critical happiness studies MARK CIESLIK 10 Drowning in liquidity: Zygmunt Bauman on happiness, ambivalence, and security JORDAN MCKENZIE 11 Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis COLIN WRIGHT

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Nicholas Hill is an early career researcher located at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. His PhD thesis examined the intersection of happiness and suffering in contemporary life. His wider research focuses on emotions and contemporary life, therapeutic and self-help culture, and experiences of health and illness, particularly mental health. Svend Brinkmann is professor of psychology and qualitative methods and codirector of the Center for Qualitative Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the author of Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life, Qualitative Interviewing and Psychology as a Moral Science, and Diagnostic Cultures and the coauthor of InterViews (Third Edition): Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing. Anders Petersen is associate professor of sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark and coeditor of Imaginative Methodologies: Creativity, Poetics and Rhetoric in Social Research, The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization and Late Modern Subjectivity and Its Discontents: Anxiety, Depression and Alzheimer’s Disease.

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