| #131900 in Books | Eric G Wilson | 2009-01-20 | 2009-01-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.2 x5.00l,.31 | File Name: 0374531668 | 176 pages | Against Happiness In Praise of Melancholy
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| wonderful book, insightful ideas ahead of their time!|By Phoenix|For those of us who enjoy each day yet still see the bigger picture, this book should be an "aha" moment for you, as it sure was for me! With eloquent prose and well thought out ideas, this book contradicts the popular "happy-joy-joy or else" culture we now live in. As someone who has been told, when I point out|From Publishers Weekly|This slender, powerful salvo offers a sure-to-be controversial alternative to the recent cottage industry of high-brow happiness books. Wilson, chair of Wake Forest University's English Department, claims that Americans today are too inte
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 to any thriving culture, that it is the muse of great literature, painting, music, and innovation―and that it is the force underlying original insights.
So enough Prozac-ing of our brains. Let's embrace our d...
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