Mourning happiness : narrative and the politics of modernity /

For many eighteenth-century thinkers, happiness was a revolutionary idea filled with the promise of the Enlightenment. Vivasvan Soni argues, however, that the period fails to establish the importance of happiness as a guiding idea for human practice, generating our modern sentimental idea of happine...

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Main Author: Soni, Vivasvan, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010
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