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The Promise of Happiness on JSTOR

The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own ...

The Promise of Happiness. By SARA, AHMED. Durham, N.C. - jstor

piness is more than a utilitarian foundational assumption; even Immanuel Kant, whose moral theory uncouples happiness and ethics, observes that "happiness ...

Religion and the Promise of Happiness - jstor

happiness" (78). James is untroubled that "men come to regard the happiness which a religious belief affords as a proof of its truth" ( ...

Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness: A Critical ... - jstor

Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012. The animating speculation of Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness is well marked by its title. As David Kleinberg-Levin, ...

Beckett's Words: The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning

promise: a promise of happiness, yes, but a very specifically defined form of "happiness." By traveling through Nietzsche, Heidegger, Hegel, Adorno, and.

The Promise of Happiness - Duke University Press

The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own ...

Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin ...

Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald ... Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try ...

only a promise of happiness: the place of beauty in a world - jstor

ONLY A PROMISE OF HAPPINESS: THE PLACE OF BEAUTY IN A WORLD. OF ART, by Alexander Nehamas. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,. 2007,186 pp., $29.95 ...

The Promise of Happiness - We.riseup.net

Happiness shapes what coheres as a world. In describing happiness as a form of world making I am indebted to the work of feminist, black, and queer schol- ars ...

The Promise of Happiness | Books Gateway | Duke University Press

The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own h.

Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness - PhilPapers

_The Promise of Happiness_ is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own ...

The Promise of Happiness - Crossref

The publisher of this work supports co-access. The work is available from the following locations: dukeupress.edu. degruyter.com. jstor.org ...

Sara Ahmed Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness - jstor

Feminists have shown how the happiness wish is deposited in certain places. Take feminist critiques of the figure of the happy housewife. Betty Friedan, in The ...

Full article: The Promise of Happiness - Taylor & Francis Online

Sara Ahmed's The Promise of Happiness does not promise happiness. Instead it performs a critique of happiness that unravels the concept, ...

The Promise of Happiness by Sara Ahmed (review) - Project MUSE

Sara Ahmed's recent bookThe Promise of Happiness explores connections between affect, subjectivity, and citizenship. One of the central ...

The Promise of Happiness - Sara Ahmed - Google Books

The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own ...

The Promise of Happiness

To. Ahmed, promises of happiness are the result of happiness being attached to certain objects repeatedly over time, such as the object of the happy family, or ...

The Promise of Happiness | Black Feminist Killjoy Reading Group

Ideas of happiness involve social as well as moral distinctions insofar as they rest on ideas of who is worthy as well as capable of being happy “in the right.

The Promise of Happiness - Crossref

The publisher of this work supports co-access. The work is available from the following locations: degruyter.com. dukeupress.edu. jstor.org ...

The books under review here work the vein of what some have called

The Promise of Happiness. By Sara Ahmed. Durham, NC: Duke University. Press ... The Promise of Happiness works with a fundamental paradox that struc-.