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1041803
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b796173
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| Uniform Title
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Euphorie perpétuelle.English
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Bruckner, Pascal.
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Perpetual euphoria : : on the duty to be happy /\ Pascal Bruckner ; translated by Steven Rendall.
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton :: Princeton University Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (x, 244 pages)
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| ISBN
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0691143730
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: 1282645080
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: 1400835976
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: 9780691143736
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: 9781282645080
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: 9781400835973
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9780691143736
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Life as a dream and a lie -- The golden age and after? -- The disciplines of beatitude -- The bittersweet saga of dullness -- The extremists of routine -- Real life is not absent -- "The fat, prosperous elevation of the average, the mediocre" -- What is happiness for some is kitsch for others -- If money doesn't make you happy, give it back! -- The crime of suffering -- Impossible wisdom -- Conclusion Madame Verdurin's croissant.
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Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion--one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating principle of the Enlightenment--the right to pursue happiness--become the unavoidable and burdensome responsibility to be happy? How did we become unhappy about not being happy--and what might we do to escape this predicament? In Perpetual Euphoria, Pascal Bruckner takes up these questions wit.
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Happiness-- History-- 19th century.
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Happiness-- History-- 20th century.
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Happiness-- Social aspects.
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Happiness-- Social aspects.
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Happiness.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Ethics Moral Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Political.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Social.
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170
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BJ1482.B7813 2010eb
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