Why We Are Restless : On the Modern Quest for Contentment /
A beautifully written exploration of how the way we pursue happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change-even if it means undermining the fou...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Prologue We Restless Souls -- |t Introduction Four French Thinkers on the Modern Quest for Contentment -- |t Chapter 1 Montaigne: The Art of Ordinary Life -- |t Chapter 2 Pascal: The Inhumanity of Immanence -- |t Chapter 3 Rousseau: The Tragedy of Nature's Redeemer -- |t Chapter 4 Tocqueville: Democracy and the Naked Soul -- |t Conclusion Liberal Education and the Art of Choosing -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Suggested Readings -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
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520 | |a A beautifully written exploration of how the way we pursue happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change-even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. In Why We Are Restless, Benjamin and Jenna Storey offer a profound and beautiful reflection on the roots of this malaise and examine how we might begin to cure ourselves.Drawing on the insights of Montaigne, Pascal, Rousseau, and Tocqueville, Why We Are Restless explores the modern vision of happiness that leads us on, and the disquiet that follows it like a lengthening shadow. In the sixteenth century, Montaigne articulated an original vision of human life that inspired people to see themselves as individuals dedicated to seeking contentment in the here and now, but Pascal argued that that we cannot find happiness through pleasant self-seeking, only anguished God-seeking. Rousseau later tried and failed to rescue Montaigne's worldliness from Pascal's attack. Steeped in these debates, Tocqueville visited the United States in 1831 and, observing a people "restless in the midst of their well-being," discovered what happens when an entire nation seeks worldly contentment-and finds mostly discontent.Arguing that the philosophy we have inherited, despite pretending to let us live as we please, produces remarkably homogenous and unhappy lives, Why We Are Restless makes the case that finding true contentment requires rethinking our most basic assumptions about happiness. | ||
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588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) | |
650 | 0 | |a Contentment. | |
650 | 0 | |a Happiness. | |
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653 | |a Christianity. | ||
653 | |a Democracy in America. | ||
653 | |a French philosophy. | ||
653 | |a anxiety. | ||
653 | |a atheism. | ||
653 | |a classical education. | ||
653 | |a decadence. | ||
653 | |a democracy. | ||
653 | |a depression. | ||
653 | |a elites. | ||
653 | |a good life. | ||
653 | |a history of philosophy. | ||
653 | |a hyperactivity. | ||
653 | |a ideal of happiness. | ||
653 | |a immanent contentment. | ||
653 | |a liberal education. | ||
653 | |a materialism. | ||
653 | |a meaning of life. | ||
653 | |a modernity. | ||
653 | |a moralist. | ||
653 | |a paradox of choice. | ||
653 | |a political philosophy. | ||
653 | |a purpose of life. | ||
653 | |a pursuit of happiness. | ||
653 | |a roots of modernity. | ||
653 | |a self. | ||
653 | |a skepticism. | ||
653 | |a unhappiness. | ||
653 | |a what is happiness. | ||
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