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This handbook examines the new and rapidly growing field of the
positive humanities-an area of academic research at the
intersection of positive psychology and the arts and humanities.
Written by leading experts across a wide range of academic
disciplines, the volume begins with an overview of the science and
culture of human flourishing, covering historical and current
trends in this literature. Next, contributors consider the
well-being benefits of engagement with the arts and humanities,
marking out neurological, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and
social pathways to human flourishing. These pathways lead to
detailed investigations of individual fields within the arts and
humanities, including music, the visual arts, philosophy, history,
literature, religion, theater, and film. Along the way, the book
thoroughly synthesizes theory, research, and exemplary practice,
concluding with thought-provoking discussions of avenues for public
engagement and policy. With its expansive coverage of both the
field as a whole and specialized disciplinary and interdisciplinary
drivers, The Oxford Handbook of the Positive Humanities advances
the literature on the theory and science of well-being and extends
the scope of the arts and humanities.
This book contains a wealth of practical arts activities, which
creatively and playfully bring positive psychology concepts - such
as flow, character strengths, goals and self-awareness - to life.
With straightforward, step-by-step instructions, each chapter
includes an overview of a positive psychology concept, followed by
associated arts activities, and case examples illustrating the
activities' uses in therapy and supervision. Also included are
post-activity guiding questions to promote a dialogue between
therapist and client, and suggestions for adapting the activities
for clients to utilize outside the therapy room. Blending the
strengths-based focus of positive psychology with the healing,
transformative practice of the arts, this book is for all
practitioners wanting to cultivate the mental health, flourishing
and wellbeing of their clients using a creative approach.
In much of the critical discourse of the seventies, eighties, and
nineties, scholars employed suspicion in order to reveal a given
text's complicity with various undesirable ideologies and/or
psychopathologies. Construed as such, interpretive practice was
often intended to demystify texts and authors by demonstrating in
them the presence of false consciousness, bourgeois values,
patriarchy, orientalism, heterosexism, imperialist attitudes,
and/or various neuroses, complexes, and lacks. While it proved to
be of vital importance in literary studies, suspicious hermeneutics
often compelled scholars to interpret eudaimonia, or well-being
variously conceived, in pathologized terms. At the end of the
twentieth century, however, literary scholars began to see the
limitations of suspicion, conceived primarily as the discernment of
latent realities beneath manifest illusions. In the last decade,
often termed the "post-theory era," there was a radical shift in
focus, as scholars began to recognize the inapplicability of
suspicion as a critical framework for discussions of eudaimonic
experiences, seeking out several alternative forms of critique,
most of which can be called, despite their differences, a
hermeneutics of affirmation. In such alternative reading strategies
scholars were able to explore configurations of eudaimonia, not by
dismissing them as bad politics or psychopathology but in complex
ways that have resulted in a new eudaimonic turn, a
trans-disciplinary phenomenon that has also enriched several other
disciplines. The Eudaimonic Turn builds on such work, offering a
collection of essays intended to bolster the burgeoning critical
framework in the fields of English, Comparative Literature, and
Cultural Studies by stimulating discussions of well-being in the
"post-theory" moment. The volume consists of several examinations
of literary and theoretical configurations of the following
determinants of human subjectivity and the role these play in
facilitating well-being: values, race, ethics/morality, aesthetics,
class, ideology, culture, economics, language, gender,
spirituality, sexuality, nature, and the body. Many of the authors
compelling refute negativity bias and pathologized interpretations
of eudaimonic experiences or conceptual models as they appear in
literary texts or critical theories. Some authors examine the
eudaimonic outcomes of suffering, marginalization, hybridity,
oppression, and/or tragedy, while others analyze the positive
effects of positive affect. Still others analyze the aesthetic
response and/or the reading process in inquiries into the role of
language use and its impact on well-being, or they explore the
complexities of strength, resilience, and other positive character
traits in the face of struggle, suffering, and "othering."
In much of the critical discourse of the seventies, eighties, and
nineties, scholars employed suspicion in order to reveal a given
text's complicity with various undesirable ideologies and/or
psychopathologies. Construed as such, interpretive practice was
often intended to demystify texts and authors by demonstrating in
them the presence of false consciousness, bourgeois values,
patriarchy, orientalism, heterosexism, imperialist attitudes,
and/or various neuroses, complexes, and lacks. While it proved to
be of vital importance in literary studies, suspicious hermeneutics
often compelled scholars to interpret eudaimonia, or well-being
variously conceived, in pathologized terms. At the end of the
twentieth century, however, literary scholars began to see the
limitations of suspicion, conceived primarily as the discernment of
latent realities beneath manifest illusions. In the last decade,
often termed the "post-theory era," there was a radical shift in
focus, as scholars began to recognize the inapplicability of
suspicion as a critical framework for discussions of eudaimonic
experiences, seeking out several alternative forms of critique,
most of which can be called, despite their differences, a
hermeneutics of affirmation. In such alternative reading strategies
scholars were able to explore configurations of eudaimonia, not by
dismissing them as bad politics or psychopathology but in complex
ways that have resulted in a new eudaimonic turn, a
trans-disciplinary phenomenon that has also enriched several other
disciplines. The Eudaimonic Turn builds on such work, offering a
collection of essays intended to bolster the burgeoning critical
framework in the fields of English, Comparative Literature, and
Cultural Studies by stimulating discussions of well-being in the
"post-theory" moment. The volume consists of several examinations
of literary and theoretical configurations of the following
determinants of human subjectivity and the role these play in
facilitating well-being: values, race, ethics/morality, aesthetics,
class, ideology, culture, economics, language, gender,
spirituality, sexuality, nature, and the body. Many of the authors
compelling refute negativity bias and pathologized interpretations
of eudaimonic experiences or conceptual models as they appear in
literary texts or critical theories. Some authors examine the
eudaimonic outcomes of suffering, marginalization, hybridity,
oppression, and/or tragedy, while others analyze the positive
effects of positive affect. Still others analyze the aesthetic
response and/or the reading process in inquiries into the role of
language use and its impact on well-being, or they explore the
complexities of strength, resilience, and other positive character
traits in the face of struggle, suffering, and "othering."
Great literature is more often praised for compelling depictions of
conflict and tragedy than for moving portrayals of harmony and
well-being. This collection of verse brings together poems of
felicity, capturing what it means to be well in the fullest sense.
Presented in 14 thematic sections, these works offer inspiring
readings on wisdom, self-love, ecstasy, growth, righteousness, love
and lust, inspiration, oneness with nature, hope, irreverence, awe,
the delights of the senses, gratitude and compassion, relation to
the sacred, justice, and unity. At times elegant, at others blunt,
these poems reflect on what it means to live a rich, fulfilling
life.
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