Promise of Happiness

Name: Promise of Happiness
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ISBN: 9780822347255

ISBN-10: 0822347253

ISBN-13: 9780822347255

Edition: 2010

Authors: Sara Ahmed

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The Promise of Happinessis a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: "I just want you to be happy," "I'm happy if you're happy." Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the "happiness duty," the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy. Ahmed maintains that happiness is a promise that directs us toward certain life choices and away from others. Happiness is promised to those willing to…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/6/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Sara Ahmed works for the Canadian International Development Research Center regional office in New Delhi.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Why Happiness, Why Now?



Happy Objects



Feminist Killjoys



Unhappy Queers



Melancholic Migrants



Happy Futures


Conclusion: Happiness, Ethics, Possibility


Notes


References


Index