What Does the Ideal of Happiness Mean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188056 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Darrin M Mcmahon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 469-490 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2010.0045 |
| OpenAlex | W200547300 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 4 |
Far from seeking to deny ourselves, we seem intent on pursuing pleasure and happiness at every turn. The subject of intense fascination in the media and popular culture, and of lively research in a host of academic disciplines ranging from psychology to sociology to economics, happiness as emerged in recent years as a major preoccupation of our time, at once the goal of individual lives and the "sole horizon," as the critic Pascal Bruckner has observed, or "our modern democracies" (Bruckner 2000:84). What, we ought to be asking, does this modern ideal of happiness mean? (Excerpt)
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Happiness · Ideal (ethics) · Pleasure · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Moravian Church and William Blake · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sociology and Cultural Identity Studies
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |