Title:
Happiness : a history / Darrin M. McMahon.
Author:
McMahon, Darrin M.
Publication Information:
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2006.
Call Number:
BJ1481 .M46 2006B
Edition:
1st Grove Press pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9780802142894
Physical Description:
xvi, 544 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Introduction : the tragedy of happiness -- The highest good -- Perpetual felicity -- From heaven to earth -- Self-evident truths -- A modern rite -- Questioning the evidence -- Liberalism and its discontents -- Building happy worlds -- Joyful science -- Conclusion : happy ending.
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