The Routledge History of Happiness

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-32319-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1112 g

Reihe: Routledge Histories

Unmatched in originality, breadth, and scope, The Routledge History of Happiness features chapters that explore the history, anthropology, and psychology of happiness across the globe.

Through a chronological approach that ranges from the Classical and Postclassical to the twenty-first century, this volume balances intellectual-history treatments and wider efforts to deal with relevant popular culture and experience, including consumerism. It explores how and why the history of happiness has emerged in recent decades, as well as psychological and social science approaches to happiness, with a history of how relevant psychological research has unfolded. Chapters examine early cultural traditions concerning happiness, including material on Buddhist and Chinese traditions, and how they continue to influence ideas about happiness in the present day. Overall, each section emphasises wide geographical coverage, with particular attention paid to East Asia, Latin America, Europe, Russia, and Africa.

The Routledge History of Happiness is of great use to all undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in the global history of emotions.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barclay, Katie

McMahon, Darrin

Stearns, Peter N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A History of Happiness: an Introduction  Part One: Continuity and Change  2. Buddhism and Happiness: A Modern Romance or Tale as Old as Time?  3. Happiness and Grieving Well: Family Bonds and Mourning Practices in China  4. The Transition from Early to Modern Happiness in Bhutan  5. Happiness in Old Age: A Very Brief History of a Complex Topic  Part Two: Classical and Postclassical  6. Happiness in the Classical Greco-Roman World  7. Qur’anic Happiness: With Remarks on Late Antique Fear of God, Asceticism, and Emotions as Moral Understanding  8. Medieval Happiness Reconsidered: The Unstable Human Heart in This World and the Next  Part Three: Early Modern  9. Historicizing Happiness Management in the Joseon Korean Kingdom  10. Family, Care and the Affective Universe of Novohispanic Baroque Happiness: The Chiaroscuros of an Enduring Tradition  11. Shakespeare’s Unhappiness Archive and the Early Modern Social  12. Western Laughter and Happiness in Transition  Part Four: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries  13. Happiness and the Enlightenment  14. Happiness and Industrialization: Western Society in the Nineteenth Century  15. Definitions of Happiness in Ottoman Syria: Hegemonic and Subordinate Voices during the Nineteenth Century  16. Who Can be Happy in Russia?  Part Five:Twentieth Century  17.   “We Strive to Make the People a Little Happier Every Day.” Political Discourse and Practices of Happiness in Brazil and Argentina in Mid-Twentieth Century  18. Happiness and the Origins of Modern Consumerism  19. The Rise of Positive Psychology  20. Politics and Happiness, an Unhappy Inheritance: Liberal Democracies and the Return of Fascist Populism  Part Six: Twenty-first Century  21. How to be Happy in Botswana  22. Happy Japan: An Essay  23. In Pursuit of the Good Life: Young Men’s Cultivation of Enjoyment in Niger  Part Seven: Interdisciplinary Contexts  24. The History of Happiness in Academic Psychology  25.  Decades of Scientific Research on Human Happiness: Questions, Findings, and Urgent Future Directions  26. Contemporary Happiness Efforts  27. Epilogue: Joy’s Futures

Über Autor(innen)

Katie Barclay is Head of Historical and Classical Studies and Co-Director of the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender, University of Adelaide. She writes widely on the history of emotions, gender and family life. Her recent publications include Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self (2021) and with Leanne Downing, Emotions, Memes and the Making of History (2023).

Darrin M. McMahon is the David W. Little Class of 1944 Professor and Chair of the Department History at Dartmouth College and the author or editor of eight books, including Happiness: A History (2006), History and Human Flourishing (2023), and most recently, Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea (2023).

Peter N. Stearns is a Distinguished University Professor of History at George Mason University. He has written widely about the history of emotion and a variety of topics in world history, including a short book on Happiness in World History (2021). With a colleague, he is currently completing a history of contemporary American childhood.