by Lisa Bortolotti
Edited collection, Palgrave Macmillan 2009
Contents and sample chapter available for download!
CONTENTS
Preface – Lisa Bortolotti
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Contents and sample chapter available for download!
CONTENTS
Preface – Lisa Bortolotti
Part one: Happiness and the Meaningful Life
1. Happiness and Meaningfulness: Some Key Differences (T. Metz)
2. Happiness, Temporality, Meaning (J. Cottingham)
3. Tragic Joyfulness (P. Tabensky)
4. Shape and the Meaningfulness of Life (L. James)
5. Immortal Happiness (M. Quigley and J. Harris)
6. “I am well, apart from the fact that I have cancer”: Explaining Well-being within Illness (H. Carel)
7. Suffering in Happy Lives (M.W. Martin)
Part two: Happiness and the Mind.
8. Reflections on Positive Psychology (E. Duncan, I. Grazzani-Gavazzi and U. Kiran Subba)
9. Face Value. Perception and Knowledge of Others’ Happiness (E. Zamuner)
10. The Politics of Happiness: Subjective vs. Economic Measures as Measures of Social Well-being (E. Angner)
11. Happiness and Preference-Satisfaction (I. Law)
12. The Politics of the Self: Stability, Normativity and the Lives we can Live with Living (J. Lenman)
13. Happiness and Life Choices: Sartre on Desire, Deliberation and Action (J. Fernández)
14. The Reflective Life and Happiness (V. Tiberius)
References and Bibliography
Index
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