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166 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374531669
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Publication date: 20 January 2009
Description
We are addicted to happiness. More than any other generation, Americans today believe in the power of positive thinking. But who says we're supposed to be happy? In Against Happiness, the scholar Eric G. Wilson argues that melancholia is necessary...
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166 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374531669
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Publication date: 20 January 2009
Description
We are addicted to happiness. More than any other generation, Americans today believe in the power of positive thinking. But who says we're supposed to be happy? In Against Happiness, the scholar Eric G. Wilson argues that melancholia is necessary...