Happiness : a history /
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| Author / Creator: | McMahon, Darrin M. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. |
| Description: | xvi, 544 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Happiness -- History. Happiness -- Social aspects. Happiness. Happiness -- Social aspects. History. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5878181 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the tragedy of happiness
- 1. The highest good
- 2. Perpetual felicity
- 3. From heaven to earth
- 4. Self-evident truths
- A modern rite
- 5. Questioning the evidence
- 6. Liberalism and its discontents
- 7. Building happy worlds
- 8. Joyful science
- Conclusion : happy ending.
