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Happiness as enterprise : an essay on neoliberal life / Sam Binkley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (x, 198 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781438449852
  • 1438449852
  • 9781438449845
  • 1438449844
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Happiness as enterpriseDDC classification:
  • 302.5 23
LOC classification:
  • BF575.H27 .B476 2014eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction: the new happiness -- An essay on neoliberal life -- The hinge of power -- To govern happily -- Happiness as potentiality -- How to be happy -- Positive psychology -- The emotional fold -- Horizons of policy -- The folding of happiness : a polemic -- When will I be happy? -- Time within time -- Happiness as generative temporality -- Risk and emotional life -- Growth, strength and the temporality of the living -- Habits of the happy -- Habitus of conduct -- Temporalization as intensification -- Convulsive temporalities -- The work of neoliberal governmentality -- The happiness of all and each -- A genealogy of happiness -- Pure obedience and reason of state -- Liberalism and the happiness of each -- Happiness as social life -- Interiorities of social government -- The event of happiness -- Disciplining interiority -- Intimacy as equilibrium -- Boredom and the durational habitus -- The alchemy of neoliberalism -- Governmentality and the emotional fold -- Neoliberalism as destructivist project -- Incentivizing intimacy -- And the sociabilities of neoliberalism -- Conclusion: against asphyxiation -- Bibliography.
Summary: "Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory"--Provided by publisher
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)706806

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the new happiness -- An essay on neoliberal life -- The hinge of power -- To govern happily -- Happiness as potentiality -- How to be happy -- Positive psychology -- The emotional fold -- Horizons of policy -- The folding of happiness : a polemic -- When will I be happy? -- Time within time -- Happiness as generative temporality -- Risk and emotional life -- Growth, strength and the temporality of the living -- Habits of the happy -- Habitus of conduct -- Temporalization as intensification -- Convulsive temporalities -- The work of neoliberal governmentality -- The happiness of all and each -- A genealogy of happiness -- Pure obedience and reason of state -- Liberalism and the happiness of each -- Happiness as social life -- Interiorities of social government -- The event of happiness -- Disciplining interiority -- Intimacy as equilibrium -- Boredom and the durational habitus -- The alchemy of neoliberalism -- Governmentality and the emotional fold -- Neoliberalism as destructivist project -- Incentivizing intimacy -- And the sociabilities of neoliberalism -- Conclusion: against asphyxiation -- Bibliography.

"Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory"--Provided by publisher

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English.