Binkley Happiness as Enterprise

An Essay on Neoliberal Life
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4985-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Binkley, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The New Happiness

Part I: The Hinge of Power

1. To Govern Happily

2. The Emotional Fold

Part II: When Will I be Happy?

3. Time Within Time

4. Habits of the Happy

Part III: The Work of Neoliberal Governmentality

5. The Happiness of All and Each

6. Interiorities of Social Government

7. The Alchemy of Neoliberalism

Conclusion: Against Asphyxiation

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sam Binkley is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emerson College. He is the author of Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s and the coeditor (with Jorge Capetillo-Ponce) of A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics, and Discipline in the New Millennium.