The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy - Softcover

Foley, Michael

 
9781847396273: The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1847396275 ISBN 13: 9781847396273
Verlag: Simon & Schuster UK, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Like Alain de Botton crossed with Charlie Brooker, Foley succeeds in educating and enlightening us in this wry take on the existential dilemmas of modern life.

'Fascinating . . . the quest for happiness and how we are getting it all wrong' Jeremy Vine, Sunday Telegraph

The good news is that the great thinkers from history have proposed the same strategies for happiness and fulfilment. The bad news is that these turn out to be the very things most discouraged by contemporary culture. This knotty dilemma is the subject of The Age of Absurdity - a humourous and accessible investigation into how the desirable states of wellbeing and satisfaction are constantly undermined by modern life.

Michael Foley examines the elusive conditions of happiness common to philosophy, spiritual teachings and contemporary psychology, then shows how these are becoming increasingly difficult to apply in a world of high expectations. The common challenges of earning a living, maintaining a relationship and ageing are becoming battlegrounds of existential angst and self-loathing in a culture that demands conspicuous consumption, high-octane partnerships and perpetual youth.

Rather than denouncing and rejecting these challenges, Foley presents an entertaining strategy of not just accepting but embracing today's world - finding happiness in its absurdity.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Foley is a poet and novelist whose titles includ Beyond and Getting Used to Not Being Remarkable.

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Awry take on how contemporary culture is antithetical to happiness.

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Verlag
Simon & Schuster UK
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847396275
ISBN 13 
9781847396273
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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