The Happiness Fantasy

In this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederström traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century European psychiatry, to the Beat generation, to Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. He argues that happiness is now defined by a desire to be "authentic&q...

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Main Author: Cederstrom 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Medford, MA Polity Press 2019
©2018
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