The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World - Hardcover

Malouf, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701187115 ISBN 13: 9780701187118

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, 2011

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Críticas:

"The Happy Life is about how art speaks for our individuality, explains our happiness or lack of it, and is perhaps our happiness itself, as though in art we become happy" (Howard Jacobson)

"The Happy Life brilliantly provokes thought and invites debate. David Malouf makes a fascinating and valuable contribution to that essential precondition of happiness: namely, the task of understanding what it is" (A.C. Grayling)

"The Happy Life is a poised and deeply humane essay, beautifully written and carefully argued" (The Weekend Australian)

"His voice is so inclusive... I felt comforted and awakened and stimulated. A lovely, lovely piece of writing" (Marieke Hardy (Australian critic))

"Sentence by sentence the essay stimulates. It is contemporary but draws from a deep well... It is ideal material for reading groups, dinner parties or even the well-nigh extinct artist in the lonely tower" (Gerard Windsor (Australian critic))

Reseña del editor:

In The Happy Life David Malouf addresses one of the most fundamental questions of all: what makes for a happy life? In an age where our bookshelves are full of self-help volumes and tales of perfect romantic love, his discussion is particularly relevant. He asks why, when so many of the essential 'unhappinesses' - premature death, famine, plague, material poverty - have largely disappeared in the developed world, does happiness continue to elude us?
With elegance and insight, David Malouf finds new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. He returns to the wisdom of the classics, and discusses how, thanks to Thomas Jefferson, happiness became a 'right'; in a dialogue on Rubens and Rembrandt he explores the sensual happiness of the flesh; he covers the difficulties of the modern world's obsession with consumption; and finally the consolation and sympathy provided by art and literature.
In luminous prose, with ideas to savour and reflect upon, Malouf distills millennia of thought and philosophy in The Happy Life into a fascinating and tangible argument.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Chatto & Windus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0701187115
• ISBN 13: 9780701187118
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112