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Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xvi, 544 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An intellectual history of man's most elusive yet coveted goal. Today, we think of happiness as a natural right, but people haven't always felt this way. Historian McMahon argues that our modern belief in happiness is a recent development, the product of a revolution in human expectations carried out since the eighteenth century. He investigates that fundamental transformation by synthesizing two thousand years of politics, culture, and thought....
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The notion of "happily ever after" has been ingrained in many of us since childhood--meet someone, date, have the big white wedding, and enjoy your well-deserved future. But why do we buy into this idea? Is love really all we need in life? Laurie Essig invites us to flip our feelings about Romance and see it for what it really is--an ideology that we desperately cling to as a way to cope with the fact that we believe we cannot control or affect the...
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