Happiness Paradox (Reaktion Books - Focus on Contemporary Issues)

The dream of a happy life has pre-occupied thinkers since Plato, and is the signature tune of our times. In The Happiness Paradox Ziyad Marar shows how our modern obsession with happiness has evolved. In a lively and accessible style, he argues that happiness is a deceptively simple idea that will always be elusive because it is based on a paradox: the conflict of feeling good while... (more)