On Happiness: New Ideas for the Twenty-First Century

by Camilla Nelson (Editor), Deborah Pike (Editor)

Overview

This eclectic collection of essays interrogates the 'common sense' understanding of happiness in the West and examines the strategies devised to obtain it. Without disposing of the concept altogether, On Happiness rediscovers the latent aspects of this pervasive (and elusive) phenomenon, offering readers a spectrum of critical reflections and 'rethinking' this ubiquitous cultural obsession.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781742587165
Publisher:	UWA Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	234
File size:	975 KB

About the Author

Camilla Nelson is a Senior Lecturer in Writing at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney Campus. She publishes in the fields of creativity, cultural history and popular culture. Her publications include the novels Perverse Acts (1999) and Crooked (2009) and a wide range of scholarly and journalistic essays.
Deborah Pike is a Senior Lecturer in English literature at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Sydney campus, and has published in the areas of cultural studies and postcolonial, and modernist literatures. She is co-editor of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Play from Early Childhood and Beyond (with Sandra Lynch and Cynthia a’Beckett, forthcoming 2015).