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The Promise of Happiness - 9780822347255
Un libro in lingua di Sara Ahmed edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2010
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Ahmed draws on the intellectual history of happiness, from classical accounts of ethics as the good life, through seventeenth-century writings on affect and the passions, eighteenth-century debates on virtue and education, and nineteenth-century utilitarianism. She engages with feminist, antiracist, and queer critics who have shown how happiness is used to justify social oppression, and how challenging oppression causes unhappiness. Reading novels and films including Mrs. Dalloway, The Well of Loneliness, Bend It Like Beckham, and Children of Men, Ahmed considers the plight of the figures who challenge and are challenged by the attribution of happiness to particular objects or social ideals: the feminist killjoy, the unhappy queer, the angry black woman, and the melancholic migrant. Through her readings she raises critical questions about the moral order imposed by the injunction to be happy.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Promise of Happiness
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Sara Ahmed
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Giugno '10
- Genere: PHILOSOPHY
- Argomenti : Happiness Social norms Social control
- Pagine: 315
- ISBN-10: 0822347253
- EAN-13: 9780822347255