Against Happiness / / Owen Flanagan, Joseph E. LeDoux, Bobby Bingle, Daniel M. Haybron, Batja Mesquita, Michele Moody-Adams, Anna Sun, Yolonda Y. Wilson, Songyao Ren.

• VerfasserIn: Flanagan, Owen,; Bingle, Bobby,; LeDoux, Joseph E.,; Mesquita, Batja,; Moody-Adams, Michele,; Ren, Songyao,; Sun, Anna,; Wilson, Yolonda Y.,
• MitwirkendeR: Frey, Jennifer A.,; Markus, Hazel Rose,; Sachs, Jeffrey D.,; Tsai, Jeanne L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Preface
• Introduction
• I HAPPINESS PHILOSOPHY AND HAPPINESS SCIENCE
• II CULTURE AND HAPPINESS
• III RACE, RACISM, RESIGNATION
• IV CONCLUSIONS
• V RESPONSES BY FOUR CRITICS
• Notes
• References
• Index