Perpetual euphoria : on the duty to be happy /

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Author / Creator:Bruckner, Pascal.
Uniform title:Euphorie perpétuelle. English
Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (x, 244 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12314709
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ISBN:9781400835973
1400835976
1282645080
9781282645080
0691143730
9780691143736
9780691143736
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion--one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating principle of the Enlightenment--the right to pursue happiness--become the unavoidable and burdensome responsibility to be happy? How did we become unhappy about not being happy--and what might we do to escape this predicament? In Perpetual Euphoria, Pascal Bruckner takes up these questions wit.
Other form:Print version: Bruckner, Pascal. Euphorie perpétuelle. English. Perpetual euphoria. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691143736

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