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Happiness

Title
  1. Happiness / Alain Badiou ; translated with foreword by A.J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens.
Published by
  1. London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2018]
  2. ©2018
Author
  1. Badiou, Alain

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Additional authors
  1. Bartlett, A. J. (Adam John), 1967-
  2. Clemens, Justin
Description
  1. 126 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
  1. "'All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness...or it's not worth an hour of trouble' claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy: what is happiness? And what do I need to do to be happy? The desire to be happy is one of our most universal goals and yet there doesn't seem to be any easy answers or formulas for achieving happiness. And the concept has become so commodified and corrupted to be almost unrecognizable as something worth pursuing. In light of this, should we just give up the aspiration to be happy altogether? Alain Badiou thinks not. While eschewing futile procedures for magically becoming 'happy', Badiou does passionately maintain that in order to be truly happy we need philosophy. And, bolder still, that a life lived philosophically is the happiest life of all!"--
Series statement
  1. Bloomsbury shorts series
Uniform title
  1. Métaphysique du bonheur réel. English
  2. Bloomsbury shorts series.
Alternative title
  1. Métaphysique du bonheur réel.
Subject
  1. Happiness > Philosophy
Call number
  1. JFD 19-3562
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  1. Translated from the French.
Author
  1. Badiou, Alain, author.
Title
  1. Happiness / Alain Badiou ; translated with foreword by A.J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens.
Publisher
  1. London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2018]
Copyright date
  1. ©2018
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Bloomsbury shorts series
  2. Bloomsbury shorts series.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
  1. Translated from the French.
Added author
  1. Bartlett, A. J. (Adam John), 1967- translator.
  2. Clemens, Justin, translator.
ISBN
  1. 9781474275521 (hbk.)
  2. 1474275524 (hbk.)
Research call number
  1. JFD 19-3562
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