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The Happiness Agenda : A Modern Obsession / by S. Burnett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burnett, Simon, 1981-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Personnel management.
- Strategic planning.
- Leadership.
- Experimental economics.
- Sociology.
- Psychology, Industrial.
- Human Resource Management.
- Business Strategy and Leadership.
- Experimental Economics.
- Work and Organizational Psychology.
- Local Subjects:
- Human Resource Management.
- Business Strategy and Leadership.
- Experimental Economics.
- Sociology.
- Work and Organizational Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores why contemporary Anglo-American society is obsessed with happiness. Striving to be happy is now a morally imperative pursuit. Through the lens of novel social theory, this book explicates how this has transpired as consequence of a complex 'conspiracy of coordination' between political, organisational and psychological developments.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Modern myths; Pursuing happiness; 1 The happy adventures of capital; The culture of capital: an overview; A reflexive complexity; The power of subjects and objects; (Too) fast subjects; The cultural circuits of happiness; 2 A happy policy; An ancient problem, and its modern fix; The utility of happiness; The utility of Utility; Historians repeat each other, history repeats itself; The political need for happiness; 3 Happiness loves company; Theoretical origins; A modern-day assumption; Happy workers?
- Champions of the new human relations4 Positively happy; The Manhattan Project; Principles of positivity; Historical and conceptual origins; A mainstream counter-culture; 5 Happy days; Knowing happiness; The happy death of god; 6 Happiness needs practice; 7 Happy ever after?; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613360519
- 9781283360517
- 1283360519
- 9780230348417
- 0230348416
- OCLC:
- 767502935
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