Happier?: The History of a Cultural Movement That Aspired to Transform America

Horowitz, Daniel

ISBN 10: 019065564X / ISBN 13: 9780190655648

Published by Oxford University Press, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Happier?: The History of a Cultural Movement That Aspired to Transform America
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019065564X
• ISBN 13: 9780190655648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: like_new

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Synopsis

Happier? provides the first history of the origins, development, and impact of the shift in how Americans - and now many around the world - consider the human condition. This change, which came about from the fusing of beliefs and knowledge from Eastern spiritual traditions, behavioral economics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and cognitive psychology, has been led by scholars and academic entrepreneurs, in play with forces such as neoliberalism and cultural conservatism, and a public eager for self-improvement. Ultimately, the book illuminates how positive psychology, one of the most influential academic fields of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, infused American culture with captivating promises for a happier society.

About the Author

Daniel Horowitz is the Mary Huggins Gamble Foundation Chair and Professor of American Studies Emeritus at Smith College. He is a historian whose work focused on the history of consumer culture and social criticism in the U.S. during the 20th century. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Among his publications are a biography of Betty Friedan and three books on how American and European writers, from the 1830s to the late twentieth century wrestled with the consequences of affluence.