Happiness / by Alain Badiou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badiou, Alain, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Happiness--Philosophy.

Happiness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (138 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, [2019]

Summary:

'All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness...or it's not worth an hour of trouble' claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy: what is happiness? And what do I need to do to be happy? The desire to be happy is one of our most universal goals and yet there doesn't seem to be any easy answers or formulas for achieving happiness. And the concept has become so commodified and corrupted to be almost unrecognizable as something worth pursuing. In light of this, should we just give up the aspiration to be happy altogether? Alain Badiou thinks not. While eschewing futile procedures for magically becoming 'happy', Badiou does passionately maintain that in order to be truly happy we need philosophy. And, bolder still, that a life lived philosophically is the happiest life of all!

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Note on the Text/Translation

Translators' Foreword: Happiness Is Revolting

Introduction: The Metaphysics of Real Happiness

1 Philosophy and the Desire of Philosophy

2 Philosophy and Antiphilosophy Put to the Test of Happiness

3 To Be Happy, Must We Change the World?

4 Destination and Affects of Philosophy

Conclusion

Index of Names

eCopyright.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474275545

1474275540

9781474275552

1474275559

OCLC:

1151192893