Contentment in Contention

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Acceptance versus Aspiration

ISBN: 0230354599
ISBN 13: 9780230354593
Autor: Southgate, B
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xii, 208 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Happiness, or contentment, is a burgeoning field of enquiry across disciplines in humanities and social sciences Explores thinkers such as Aristotle and Plato, Bentham and Coleridge, Tolstoy and Nietzsche Cross-disciplinary – grounded in intellectual history, but also drawing on ideas from philosophers, psychologists, theologians, novelists, poets, and artists Has practical implications for social policy and education

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Beschreibung

Southgate draws on ideas within history, philosophy, literature, psychology, and theology to explore two traditions: contentment with our situation as it is, and the aspiration to transcend it. He discusses the possibility of escape from intellectual constraints, and advocates a positive 'duty of discontent', and its implications.

Autorenporträt

BEVERLEY SOUTHGATE Reader Emeritus in History of Ideas at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. His many publications include Postmodernism in History (2003), What is History For? (2005), and History Meets Fiction (2009). He is currently working on aspects of history's relationships with art.

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