Happiness a history

Main Author: McMahon, Darrin M.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2006.
Edition: 1st Grove Press pbk. ed.
Subjects:
Table of 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.