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Against Happiness (Paperback)
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Against Happiness (Paperback)
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The "happiness agenda" is a worldwide movement that claims that
happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and
public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a
thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws
of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on
equality and justice. Written by an interdisciplinary team of
authors, this book provides both theoretical and empirical analysis
of the limitations of the happiness agenda. The authors emphasize
that this movement draws on a parochial, Western-centric
philosophical basis and demographic sample. They show that
happiness defined as subjective satisfaction or a surplus of
positive emotions bears little resemblance to the richer and more
nuanced concepts of the good life found in many world traditions.
Cross-cultural philosophy, comparative theology, and social and
cultural psychology all teach that cultures and subcultures vary in
how much value they place on life satisfaction or feeling happy.
Furthermore, the ideas promoted by the happiness agenda can compete
with rights, justice, sustainability, and equality-and even conceal
racial and gender injustice. Against Happiness argues that a better
way forward requires integration of cross-cultural philosophical,
ethical, and political thought with critical social science.
Ultimately, the authors contend, happiness should be a secondary
goal-worth pursuing only if it is contingent on the demands of
justice.
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