Regimes of Happiness
Comparative and Historical Studies
'Regimes of Happiness' is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment, determining divergent moral, ethical and religious traditions, and incommensurate and conflicting understanding of the meaning of the 'good life'. A two-part book, it provides a historical view of the way in which Western societies, the descendants of the Latin Roman Empire, created languages and institutions that established specifi c and occasionally antithetical conceptions of a fulfilled human life or 'happiness' in the first part. In the second part, it explores how non-Western soci…
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Weitere Autoren: Jen, Joanna Tice (Hrsg.) / Turner, Bryan S (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78308-887-4
- EAN: 9781783088874
- Produktnummer: 30407684
- Verlag: Anthem Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 266 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'541 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Yuri Contreras-Vejar is professor of sociology at Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. He is also a member of the Committee for the Study of Religion at the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. Joanna Tice Jen is a member of the political science faculty at Las Positas College, USA. She received her PhD in political science from the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, in 2017. Bryan S. Turner is professor of sociology at the Australian Catholic University, emeritus professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, and honorary professor, Social Science Faculty, Potsdam University, Germany. He won the Max Planck Award in 2015.
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