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PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS AMP THE AMECB: Politics, Literature, & Film

Autor Elizabeth Amato
en Limba Engleză Hardback – mai 2018
The Declaration of Independence claims that individuals need liberty to pursue happiness, but provides little guidance on the "what" of happiness. Happiness studies and liberal theory are incomplete guides. Happiness studies offer insights into what makes people happy but happiness policy risks becoming doctrinaire. Liberal theory is better on personal liberty, but weak on the "what" of happiness. My argument is that American novelists are surer guides on the pursuit of happiness. Treated as political thinkers, my book offers a close reading of four American novelists, Tom Wolfe, Walker Percy, Edith Wharton, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and their critique of the pursuit of happiness. With a critical and friendly eye, they present the shortcomings of pursuing happiness in a liberal nation but also present alternatives and correctives possible in America. Our novelists point us toward each other in friendship as our greatest resource to guide us towards happiness.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498554190
ISBN-10: 1498554199
Pagini: 234
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Seria Politics, Literature, & Film


Notă biografică

Elizabeth Amato is assistant professor of political science at Gardner-Webb University.

Descriere

This book explores happiness research and liberal theory. It treats four American novelists as political thinkers through close textual analysis of their novels. This book concludes that friendship is the real basis of happiness and that it is an alternative to the individualistic pursuit of happiness.