Regimes of Happiness: Comparative and Historical Studies

Regimes of Happiness

Comparative and Historical Studies

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Edited by Yuri Contreras-Vejar, Joanna Tice Jen, Bryan Turner

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: May 2019
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781783088867

Subjects:: Social Theory, Sociology

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'Regimes of Happiness' is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment, determining divergent moral, ethical and religious traditions and incommensurate and conflicting understanding of the meaning of the 'good life'.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Notes on Contributors
pp ix-x
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Introduction: Reflections on Regimes of Happiness
pp 1-8
- By Bryan S. Turner, Professor of sociology at the Australian Catholic University, emeritus professor at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York, USA, and honorary professor, Social Science Faculty, Potsdam University, Germany., Yuri Contreras-Vejar, Professor of sociology at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.
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Part I - Happiness in the West
pp 9-10
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Chapter One - A Fragment of Bliss: Augustinian Beatitudo and the Ideal of Atonement
pp 11-24
- By Yuri Contreras-Vejar, Professor of sociology at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.
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Chapter Two - Arts of Happiness and Love: Translating Aristotle in the Later Middle Ages
pp 25-38
- By Jessica Rosenfeld, Associate professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love after Aristotle (2011).
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Chapter Three - Spiritual Transcendence as the Path to Happiness in a Selection of Old French Texts
pp 39-50
- By Stephanie Grace Petinos, Ecturer of French at Western Carolina University.
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Chapter Four - On Machiavelli, St. Francis and the Pursuit of Happiness
pp 51-62
- By William J. Connell, La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University.
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Chapter Five - Their Idea of Happiness Prevents Easy Categorization of Scottish Enlightenment Philosophers
pp 63-78
- By Megan Hills, PhD candidate in history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, focusing on the Scottish Enlightenment, having spent her previous 20 years as a trial lawyer as an AUSA and partner at a law firm.
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Chapter Six - A Path to Eternal Happiness: Convent Life in the United States in the Nineteenth Century
pp 79-92
- By Bernadette McCauley, Professor emerita of history at Hunter College, the City University of New York.
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Chapter Seven - “Be Joyful Always!”: Twenty-First-Century Evangelical Conceptions of Happiness and Trumpist Politics
pp 93-110
- By Joanna Tice Jen, Member of the political science faculty at Las Positas College in Livermore, California.
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Chapter Eight - The Erasmus Program: The Promise of European Happiness
pp 111-130
- By Davide Giuseppe Colasanto, PhD candidate in modern european history at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York.
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Chapter Nine - Innovations in the Psychological Study of Happiness: From Mirror Neurons to Mobile Technology
pp 131-152
- By Samantha Birk, The clinical psychology doctoral program at Temple University., Samantha Denefrio, Doctoral candidate in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York., Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, Professor of psychology and neuroscience at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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Part II - Comparative Perspectives
pp 153-154
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Chapter Ten - And You Should Be Nothing but Happy: Judaism and the Dual Approach to Joy
pp 155-170
- By Marc Katz, Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, NJ. He is the author of the book The Heart of Loneliness: How Jewish Wisdom Can Help You Cope and Find Comfort.
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Chapter Eleven - Happiness in Medieval Islamicate Literature: Conceptual and Practical Problems
pp 171-186
- By Anna Akasoy, Islamic intellectual history at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. Her area of expertise is medieval history.
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Chapter Twelve - From Liberation to Happiness: The Making of Modern, Middle-Class Yoga
pp 187-200
- By Shehzad Nadeem, Associate professor of sociology at Lehman College, the City University of New York.
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Chapter Thirteen - The Pursuit of Happiness in Vietnam
pp 201-218
- By Oscar Salemink, Professor of anthropology at the University of Copenhagen and adjunct professor at the Institute of Religion, Politics and Society of the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne)., Nguyen Tuan Anh, Faculty of Sociology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
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Chapter Fourteen - Indigenous and Western Views of Happiness: An Essay on the Politics of Contentment
pp 219-234
- By Colin Samson, Sociologist based at the University of Essex. He has worked with the Innu peoples of the Labrador- Quebec peninsula since 1994.
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Chapter Fifteen - A Nineteenth-Century Turning Point: Nietzsche, Weber, Freud and Mill
pp 235-248
- By Bryan S. Turner, Professor of sociology at the Australian Catholic University, emeritus professor at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York, USA, and honorary professor, Social Science Faculty, Potsdam University, Germany.
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Index
pp 249-256
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Comparative and Historical Studies

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-x

Introduction: Reflections on Regimes of Happiness
pp 1-8

Part I - Happiness in the West
pp 9-10

Chapter One - A Fragment of Bliss: Augustinian Beatitudo and the Ideal of Atonement
pp 11-24

Chapter Two - Arts of Happiness and Love: Translating Aristotle in the Later Middle Ages
pp 25-38

Chapter Three - Spiritual Transcendence as the Path to Happiness in a Selection of Old French Texts
pp 39-50

Chapter Four - On Machiavelli, St. Francis and the Pursuit of Happiness
pp 51-62

Chapter Five - Their Idea of Happiness Prevents Easy Categorization of Scottish Enlightenment Philosophers
pp 63-78

Chapter Six - A Path to Eternal Happiness: Convent Life in the United States in the Nineteenth Century
pp 79-92

Chapter Seven - “Be Joyful Always!”: Twenty-First-Century Evangelical Conceptions of Happiness and Trumpist Politics
pp 93-110

Chapter Eight - The Erasmus Program: The Promise of European Happiness
pp 111-130

Chapter Nine - Innovations in the Psychological Study of Happiness: From Mirror Neurons to Mobile Technology
pp 131-152

Part II - Comparative Perspectives
pp 153-154

Chapter Ten - And You Should Be Nothing but Happy: Judaism and the Dual Approach to Joy
pp 155-170

Chapter Eleven - Happiness in Medieval Islamicate Literature: Conceptual and Practical Problems
pp 171-186

Chapter Twelve - From Liberation to Happiness: The Making of Modern, Middle-Class Yoga
pp 187-200

Chapter Thirteen - The Pursuit of Happiness in Vietnam
pp 201-218

Chapter Fourteen - Indigenous and Western Views of Happiness: An Essay on the Politics of Contentment
pp 219-234

Chapter Fifteen - A Nineteenth-Century Turning Point: Nietzsche, Weber, Freud and Mill
pp 235-248

Index
pp 249-256

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