عنوان

The promise of happiness /

شابک

0822346664

شابک

0822347253

شابک

9780822346661

شابک

9780822347255

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

The promise of happiness /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Sara Ahmed

نام خاص و کميت اثر

x, 315 pages,

ابعاد

23 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Introduction: why happiness, why now? -- Happy objects -- Feminist killjoys -- Unhappy queers -- Melancholic migrants -- Happy futures -- Conclusion: happiness, ethics, possibility

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: 'I just want you to be happy', 'I'm happy if you're happy'. Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the 'happiness duty', the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy. Ahmed maintains that happiness is a promise that directs us toward certain life choices and away from others. Happiness is promised to those willing to live their lives in the right way. 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 sometimes 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 are challenged by, and themselves challenge, 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." -- Back cover

موضوع مستند نشده

Happiness

موضوع مستند نشده

Social control

موضوع مستند نشده

Social norms

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ahmed, Sara,1969-

تاريخ عمليات

20100617155803.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y