Critical Happiness Studies

Critical happiness studies: an invitation



NICHOLAS HILL, SVEND BRINKMANN AND ANDERS PETERSEN

PART I Fantastical happiness: an impossible ideal

1 Happiness, a moralistic fantasy



CARL CEDERSTROEM

2 'Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof': understanding the pursuit of happiness as ideology



ANDERS PETERSEN

3 'The sickness unto health': self-reification, self-love, and the critique of happiness in contemporary life



ALASTAIR MORGAN

PART II The political and social effects of happiness

4 Hijacking the language of functionality? In praise of 'negative' emotions against happiness



EDGAR CABANAS AND EVA ILLOUZ

5 Happiness and the new politicization of subjectivity



GRANT DUNCAN

6 Happiness: a societal 'imperative'?



LAURA HYMAN

7 'It's the soul that needs the surgery'? The social life of (un)happiness



NICHOLAS HILL

PART III Resources for critical happiness studies

8 Living well and living right: aesthetic and ethical dimensions of happiness



SVEND BRINKMANN

9 Sociology, biographical research, and the development of critical happiness studies



MARK CIESLIK

10 Drowning in liquidity: Zygmunt Bauman on happiness, ambivalence, and security



JORDAN MCKENZIE

11 Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis



COLIN WRIGHT

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