Happy days

Simon Burnett

Chapter 5 in The Happiness Agenda, 2012, pp 132-141 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Concurring with the above words of Sahlins, the review in the preceding chapters of the history, structure and champions of the cultural circuits of happiness in the modern Anglo-American era has swept over a “vast continent” of theoretical and historical “monuments” (ibid.: 395), highlighting Thrift’s characteristic conception that: “all manner of times are constructed by the particular networks that thread their way … around the world” (1999: 63). In “The Sacralization of the Self in New Age Capitalism,” Heelas asks the poignant and pertinent question: “Why have so many people in the West come to believe in themselves?” (1992: 147, emphasis in original). The arguments and evidence in this book pertaining to happiness are thus able to provide one possible answer.

Keywords: Spiritual Development; Cultural Circuit; Preceding Chapter; Therapeutic Touch; Cultural Network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-34841-7_6

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230348417

DOI: 10.1057/9780230348417_6

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().