Politics of happiness : connecting the philosophical ideas of Hegel, Nietzsche and Derrida to the political ideologies of happiness

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Politics of happiness : connecting the philosophical ideas of Hegel, Nietzsche and Derrida to the political ideologies of happiness

Ross Abbinnett

Bloomsbury, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-192) and index

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This unique and engaging study argues that the Western concern with achieving happiness should be understood in terms of its relationship to the political ideologies that have emerged since the Enlightenment. To do so, each chapter examines the place that happiness occupies in the construction of ideologies that have formed the political terrain of the West, including liberalism, postmodernism, socialism, fascism, and religion. Throughout, Hegel's phenomenology, Nietzsche's genealogy, and Derrida's account of deconstruction as reactions to modernization are used to show that the politics of happiness are always a clash of fundamental ideas of belonging, overcoming, and ethical responsibility. Stressing that the concept of happiness lies at the foundation of political movements, the book also looks at its place in the current global order, analyzing the emergence of such ideas as affective democracy that challenge the conventional notions of privatized, acquisitive happiness. Written in a clear manner, the work will appeal to political theory students and researchers looking for a critical and historical account of contemporary debates about the nature of happiness and ideology.

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Introduction: Elements of the Politics of Happiness 1. Liberalism and the Uses of Desire The Governance of Pain and Pleasure The Science of Wellbeing Life Beyond Contentment Death and the New World Order 2. Postmodernism, or, The Dream of Limitless Excess Aesthetic Consolations Art, Irony, and Romanticism The Tragedy of Pure Culture Simulacra of Happiness 3. Marxism and the Beautiful Object of Labour Organic Labour and Species Being Happiness and Revolutionary Materialism Work, Servitude, and Ressentiment Socialism and the Messianic 4. Fascism and the Pleasure of Self-Destruction The Essence of Fascism Anxiety and Modern Desire Reactionary Love and 'The People' Spectres of Fascism 5. Religion and the Love of the Sacred Religion in the Disenchanted World Faith and Enlightenment Orthodoxy and the Death of God The Ecstasy of the Sacred Conclusion: Happiness and Catastrophic Modernity

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