Darrin McMahon: The Pursuit of Happiness

Cover: 9780140295269 | The Pursuit of Happiness | Darrin McMahon | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

Happiness and its pursuit have been a constant source of fascination and attraction for thousands of years. In ancient Greek tragedy happiness was considered a gift of the gods. Now we consider it a right. Why did this change and what does it tell us about our society? The Pursuit of Happiness offers a brilliant summation of the history of happiness and its evolution from divine gift to natural human entitlement. Central to the development of Christianity ideas of happiness assumed their modern form during the Enlightenment. Darrin McMahon follows this great search through to the present day showing how our modern quest for the 'holy grail' of happiness continues to generate new forms of pleasure but also paradoxically new forms of pain. Perfect happiness like the holy grail may exist only in our minds and McMahon helps us discover that as for Cervantes' knight of sad countenance Quixote to travel is better than to arrive.

Über den Autor

Darrin McMahon is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. McMahon is currently a professor at Florida State University and writes regularly for various publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and Daedalus.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780140295269
ISBN-10:	0140295267
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	McMahon, Darrin
Hersteller:	Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 129 x 33 mm
Von/Mit:	Darrin McMahon
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.10.2007
Gewicht:	0,662 kg