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Perpetual euphoria : on the duty to be happy /
Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion--one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion--one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating principle of the Enlightenment--the right to pursue happiness--become the unavoidable and burdensome responsibility to be happy? How did we become unhappy about not being happy--and what might we do to escape this predicament? In Perpetual Euphoria, Pascal Bruckner takes up these questions wit. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 244 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400835973 1400835976 1282645080 9781282645080 0691143730 9780691143736 |