Politics of happiness [electronic resource] : connecting the philosophical ideas of Hegel, Nietzsche and Derrida to the political ideologies of happiness

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서명/저자사항	Politics of happiness [electronic resource]: connecting the philosophical ideas of Hegel, Nietzsche and Derrida to the political ideologies of happiness / Ross Abbinnett.
개인저자	Abbinnett, Ross.
발행사항	New York: Bloomsbury, c2013.
형태사항	1 online resource (195 pages).
기타형태 저록	Print version: Abbinnett, Ross. Politics of happiness 9781441120816
ISBN	9781441176202 (electronic bk.) 1441176209 (electronic bk.)
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index.
내용주기	FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Quotes; Introduction: Elements of the Politics of Happiness; Happiness and the modern subject; Three philosophies of desire; The politics of happiness; 1 Liberalism and the Uses of Desire; The governance of pain and pleasure; The science of wellbeing; Life beyond contentment; Life, death and the new world order; 2 Postmodernism, or The Dream of Limitless Possibility; Aesthetic consolations; Art, Irony, and romanticism; The tragedy of pure Culture; Simulacra of happiness; 3 Marxism, Socialism and the Beautiful Object of Labour Organic labour and species beingThe promise of revolutionary materialism; Work, servitude and ressentiment; Socialism and the messianic; 4 Fascism and the Pleasure of Self-Annihilation; The essence of fascism; Anxiety and modern desire; Reactionary love and 'the people'; Spectres of fascism; 5 Religion and the Love of the Sacred; Religion in the disenchanted world; Faith and enlightenment; Orthodoxy and the death of God; The ecstasy of the sacred; Conclusion: Happiness in the Time of Catastrophe; Bibliography; Index
요약	This unique and engaging study argues that the Western concern with achieving happiness should be understood in terms of its relationship to the political ideologies that have emerged since the Enlightenment. To do so, each chapter examines the place that happiness occupies in the construction of ideologies that have formed the political terrain of the West, including liberalism, postmodernism, socialism, fascism, and religion. Throughout, Hegel's phenomenology, Nietzsche's genealogy, and Derrida's account of deconstruction as reactions to modernization are used to show that the politics of ha.
주제명(개인명)	Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,1770-1831. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,1844-1900. Derrida, Jacques. Derrida, Jacques.fast -- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,1770-1831. -- fast -- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,1844-1900. -- fast --
일반주제명	Happiness --Philosophy. Happiness --Philosophy. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference.
분류기호(DDC)	320.01
언어	영어
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