| Description |
1 online resource (x, 244 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Life as a dream and a lie -- The golden age and after? -- The disciplines of beatitude -- The bittersweet saga of dullness -- The extremists of routine -- Real life is not absent -- "The fat, prosperous elevation of the average, the mediocre" -- What is happiness for some is kitsch for others -- If money doesn't make you happy, give it back! -- The crime of suffering -- Impossible wisdom -- Conclusion Madame Verdurin's croissant. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Happiness -- History -- 19th century.
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Happiness. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Happiness -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Happiness -- Social aspects.
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Happiness -- Social aspects. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Euphorie perpétuelle. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bruckner, Pascal. Euphorie perpétuelle. English. Perpetual euphoria. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691143736 (DLC) 2009039254 (OCoLC)440562967 |
| ISBN |
9781400835973 (electronic book) |
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1400835976 (electronic book) |
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1282645080 |
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9781282645080 |
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0691143730 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691143736 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691143736 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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