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Happiness as Enterprise

Happiness as Enterprise
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9781438449852
ISBN-13 : 1438449852
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Book Synopsis Happiness as Enterprise by : Sam Binkley

Download or read book Happiness as Enterprise written by Sam Binkley and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have seen an explosion of interest in the phenomenon of happiness, as evidenced by self-help books, talk shows, spiritual mentoring, business management, and relationship counseling. At the center of this development is the expanding influence of "positive psychology," which places the concern with happiness in a new position of professional respectability, while opening it to institutional applications. In settings as diverse as college education, business, military training, family, and financial planning, happiness has appeared as the object of a new technology of emotional self-optimization. As such, happiness has come to define a new mentality of self-government—or a "governmentality" as the concept is developed in the work of Michel Foucault—one that Sam Binkley demonstrates is aligned closely with economic neoliberalism. Happiness as Enterprise blends theoretical argumentation and empirical description in an engaging and accessible analysis that brings governmentality theory into contact with sociological theories of practice and temporality, particularly in the work of Pierre Bourdieu. This book invites readers not only to consider the new discourse on happiness for its relation to contemporary formations of power, but to rethink many of the assumptions of governmentality theory in a manner sensitive to the mundane practices and everyday agencies of government, and the unique and specific temporalities these practices imply.


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