Happiness (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) - Softcover

Buch 87 von 108: MIT Press Essential Knowledge

Lomas, Tim

 
9780262544207: Happiness (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0262544202 ISBN 13: 9780262544207
Verlag: The MIT Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness.

What does it mean to feel happiness? As a state of mind, it’s elusive. As a concept—despite the plethora of pop psychology books on the subject—it’s poorly understood. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psychologist Tim Lomas offers a concise and engaging overview of our current understanding of happiness. Lomas explains that although the field of positive psychology, which focuses on happiness, emerged only in the last twenty-five years, interest in the meaning of happiness goes back several millennia. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, from philosophy and sociology to economics and anthropology, Lomas offers an expansive vision of what happiness means, exploring a significant range of experiential territory.
 
After considering such related concepts as wellbeing and flourishing, Lomas traces ideas of happiness from the ancient Buddhist notions of sukha and nirvana through Aristotle’s distinction between hedonic and eudaemonic happiness to today’s therapeutic and scientific approaches. He discusses current academic perspectives, looking at the breadth of happiness research across disciplines; examines the mechanics of happiness—the physiological, psychological, phenomenological, and sociocultural processes that make up happiness; explores the factors that influence happiness, both individual and social; and discusses the cultivation of happiness.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Lomas is a Research Affiliate at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and the author of Translating Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being. His work has been featured in Time, the New Yorker, Vox, Scientific American, and the Atlantic.
 

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Verlag
The MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262544202
ISBN 13 
9780262544207
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304
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