Regimes of Happiness by Contreras-Vejar, Yuri -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Reflections on Regimes of Happiness Part I Happiness in the West

Introduction On Opposites: Felix Roman versus Christian Beatus Bibliography

Chapter Two Arts of Happiness and Love: Translating Aristotle in the Later Middle Ages

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Chapter Four On Machiavelli, St. Francis and the Pursuit of Happiness

On Beatings The Sceptical Machiavelli A ‘Franciscan’ Family The Pursuit of Happiness Bibliography

Hobbes, Locke, Mandeville Background Francis Hutcheson Henry Home, Lord Kames Adam Ferguson Discussion Conclusion References

Appendix References

What Is Evangelicalism? The Beatitudes Meditation Receptivity to God through Emotional Discipline Normative Ranking of “Good” and “Bad” Emotions Conclusion Bibliography

Chapter Eight The Erasmus Program: The Promise of European Happiness

Introduction Promotion, Media and Cultural Representations7 The Sexual Thread Critiques and Counternarratives Conclusions Bibliography

Introduction Two Fundamental Views of Happiness: Hedonism and Eudaimonism Dichotomies Questioned: Recent Innovations in Happiness Research Emotion Regulation and Happiness Cultural Context Individual Differences and Happiness The Evolution of Happiness Measures Technological and Neuroscience Innovations in the Study of Happiness Concluding Thoughts References

Part II Comparative Perspectives

Happiness of This World Happiness through God

Study as a Divine Sexual Encounter Study as a Taste of Heaven Study as Revelation

Hospitality as the Synthesis of Two Avenues to Happiness Conclusion

Al-Kindī: Stoic Ethics as a Mirror for Princes Al-Fārābī: Happiness and Politics Visions of Society in Falsafa and Beyond Ibn Ṭufayl: Desert Island Happiness The Kutadgu Bilig: A Mirror for Princes as a Philosophical Text Conclusion Bibliography

Chapter Twelve From Liberation to Happiness: The Making of Modern, Middle-Class Yoga

The Ascetic and the Athletic Western Incursions Gravity and Grace Works Cited

Chapter Thirteen The Pursuit of Happiness in Vietnam

Introduction The Various Meanings of Hạnh Phúc Hạnh Phúc as Intergenerational Notion in the Chain of Being When Hạnh Phúc Is Missing Conclusion Bibliography

Liberal Happiness Emerges […] and Lives on Happiness Crosses the Atlantic Happiness and Labour Happiness from Having Less Happiness and the Natural World Happiness and Transculturation Concluding Thought Acknowledgement Bibliography

Chapter Fifteen A Nineteenth-Century Turning Point: Nietzsche, Weber, Freud and Mill

Introduction Nietzsche and the Critique of Happiness Weber and the Melancholy Imagination Freud and Ordinary Unhappiness Key Characteristics Happiness Studies Conclusion References

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