Happiness as Enterprise

Name: Happiness as Enterprise
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 9781438449845
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An Essay on Neoliberal Life

Szerző: Sam Binkley

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: State University of New York Press

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Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory.Recent d...

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Sam Binkley

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2015

oldal

208

EAN

9781438449845

ISBN

1438449844

Enbook ID

08877914

Kiadó

State University of New York Press

Súly

304

Méretek

152 x 229 x 13

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Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory.

Recent decades have seen an explosion of interest in the phenomenon of happiness, as evidenced by self-help books, talk shows, spiritual mentoring, business management, and relationship counseling. At the center of this development is the expanding influence of "positive psychology," which places the concern with happiness in a new position of professional respectability, while opening it to institutional applications. In settings as diverse as college education, business, military training, family, and financial planning, happiness has appeared as the object of a new technology of emotional self-optimization. As such, happiness has come to define a new mentality of self-government-or a "governmentality" as the concept is developed in the work of Michel Foucault-one that Sam Binkley demonstrates is aligned closely with economic neoliberalism. Happiness as Enterprise blends theoretical argumentation and empirical description in an engaging and accessible analysis that brings governmentality theory into contact with sociological theories of practice and temporality, particularly in the work of Pierre Bourdieu. This book invites readers not only to consider the new discourse on happiness for its relation to contemporary formations of power, but to rethink many of the assumptions of governmentality theory in a manner sensitive to the mundane practices and everyday agencies of government, and the unique and specific temporalities these practices imply.

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