[PDF.58kc] Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity

For many eighteenth-century thinkers, happiness was a revolutionary new idea filled with the promise of the Enlightenment. However, Vivasvan Soni argues that the period fails to establish the importance of happiness as a guiding idea for human practice, generating our modern sentimental idea of happiness. Mourning Happiness shows how the eighteenth century's very obsession with happiness culminates in the political obsolescence of the idea.

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity   |  Vivasvan Soni. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.