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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Yuri Contreras-Vejar, Joanna Tice Jen, and Bryan S Turner Klappentext 'Regimes of Happiness' is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Reflections on Regimes of Happiness, Bryan S. Turner and Yuri Contreras-Véjar; Happiness in the West; A Fragment of Bliss: Augustinian Beatitudo and the Ideal of Atonement, Yuri Contreras-Véjar; Arts of Happiness and Love: Translating Aristotle in the Later Middle Ages, Jessica Rosenfeld; Spiritual Transcendence as the Path to Happiness in a Selection of Old French Texts, Stephanie Grace Petinos; St. Francis and Machiavelli on Happiness and Joy, William J. Connell; The Concept of Happiness Prevents Facile Definitions in the Scottish Enlightenment, Megan Hills; A Path to Eternal Happiness: Convent Life in the United States in the Nineteenth Century, Bernadette McCauley; "Be Joyful Always!" Twenty-First-Century Evangelical Conceptions of Happiness and Trumpist Politics, Joanna Tice-Jen; The Erasmus Program: The Promise of European Happiness, Davide Giuseppe Colasanto; Innovations in the Psychological Study of Happiness: From Mirror Neurons to Mobile Technology, Samantha Birk, Samantha Denefrio and Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary; Comparative Perspectives; And You Should Be Nothing but Happy: Judaism and the Dual Approach to Joy, Marc Katz; Happiness in Medieval Islamicate Literature: Conceptual and Practical Problems, Anna Akasoy; From Liberation to Happiness: The Making of Modern, Middle-Class Yoga, Shehzad Nadeem; The Pursuit of Happiness in Vietnam, Nguy¿n Tün Anh and Oscar Salemink; Indigenous and Western Views of Happiness: An Essay on the Politics of Contentment, Colin Samson; A Nineteenth-Century Turning Point: Nietzsche, Weber, Freud and Mill, Bryan S. Turner; Index.
