The happy life : the search for contentment in the modern world / David Malouf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malouf, David, author.

Series:

Quarterly Essay

Quarterly Essay ; Issue 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life.

Contentment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (149 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Collingwood, Victoria : Black Incorporated, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life - what it is, and what makes it possible - David Malouf returns to the "highest wisdom" of the classics, looks at how, thanks to Thomas Jefferson's way with words, happiness became a "right", and examines joy in the flesh as depicted by Rubens and Rembrandt. In a world become ever larger and impersonal, he fin

Contents:

COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; THE HAPPY LIFE: THE SEARCH FOR CONTENTMENT IN THE MODERN WORLD; THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE; THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS; UNREST; HAPPINESS IN THE FLESH; THE WAY WE LIVE NOW; PETER MARTIN; CORRESPONDENCE; ANDREW LEIGH; TIM DIXON; MARK O'CONNOR; SHAUN CARNEY; HUGH MACKAY; BARRY JONES; GEORGE MEGALOGENIS; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 22, 2014).

ISBN:

1-921870-14-1