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245 10 a| Happinessh| [electronic resource] /c| Jeffrey R. Di Leo.;

260 a| Abingdon, Oxon ;a| New York, NY :b| Routledge,c| 2022.;

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300 a| pages cm.;

490 0 a| New literary theory;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| The Brave New World of Well-Being: Happiness as a Commodity from Huxley and Alain to Pharrell and Oprah -- Happiness, No Thanks!: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and the Critique of Happiness from Freud to ¿ưi¿¿ek -- The Happiness of the Text: Morality, Writing, and the Pursuit of Pleasure from Gide to Barthes -- Real Happiness is Revolutionary: Badiou, Antiphilosophy, and the Metaphysics of Happiness from Spinoza and Pascal to Mallarm©♭ and Beckett.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "This book introduces the reader to the ways in which happiness has been explored in philosophy and literature for thousands of years, in order to understand the newest theoretical approaches to happiness. Jeffrey R. Di Leo draws on its long and rich history as a window into our present obsession with happiness. Each of the four chapters of this book provides a substantially different literary-theoretical account of how and why literature matters with respect to considerations of happiness. From the neoliberal happiness industry and the psychoanalytic rejection of happiness to aesthetic hedonism and revolutionary happiness. Literature viewed from the perspective of happiness becomes a story about what is and is not the goal of life. The multidisciplinary approach of this book will appeal to a variety of readers from literary studies, critical theory, philosophy and psychology and anyone with an interest in happiness and theories of emotion"--c| Provided by publisher.;

538 a| Mode of access: World Wide Web;

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650 0 a| Happiness in literature.=| ^A224470;

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Happiness / Jeffrey R. Di Leo.

Author/creator	Di Leo, Jeffrey R.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Description	pages cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks
Subjects	Happiness. Well-being. Happiness in literature.

Series	New literary theory
Contents	The Brave New World of Well-Being: Happiness as a Commodity from Huxley and Alain to Pharrell and Oprah -- Happiness, No Thanks!: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and the Critique of Happiness from Freud to ¿ưi¿¿ek -- The Happiness of the Text: Morality, Writing, and the Pursuit of Pleasure from Gide to Barthes -- Real Happiness is Revolutionary: Badiou, Antiphilosophy, and the Metaphysics of Happiness from Spinoza and Pascal to Mallarm©♭ and Beckett.
Abstract	"This book introduces the reader to the ways in which happiness has been explored in philosophy and literature for thousands of years, in order to understand the newest theoretical approaches to happiness. Jeffrey R. Di Leo draws on its long and rich history as a window into our present obsession with happiness. Each of the four chapters of this book provides a substantially different literary-theoretical account of how and why literature matters with respect to considerations of happiness. From the neoliberal happiness industry and the psychoanalytic rejection of happiness to aesthetic hedonism and revolutionary happiness. Literature viewed from the perspective of happiness becomes a story about what is and is not the goal of life. The multidisciplinary approach of this book will appeal to a variety of readers from literary studies, critical theory, philosophy and psychology and anyone with an interest in happiness and theories of emotion"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2021037789
ISBN	9781032015200 (hardback)
ISBN	9781032015224 (paperback)
ISBN	(ebook)

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