The Pursuit of Happiness : A History from the Greeks to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780140295269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 544 str.

Darrin McMahon

Opis

Offers a summation of the history of happiness, and its evolution from divine gift to natural human entitlement. This title shows how our modern quest for the 'holy grail' of happiness continues to generate various forms of pleasure, but also, paradoxically, different forms of pain.

Recenzje

McMahon shows how the Ancient Greeks considered happiness a gift of the gods, whereas we now view it as a right ... His method made this reader shout aloud with joy - and happiness was contained for me within nothing less than the canon The Times

O autorze

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.