Pursuing Happiness
A Bedford Spotlight Reader
by Matthew Parfitt, Dawn Skorczewski
2nd Edition
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781319056322 |
| eText ISBN | 9781319258795 |
| Publisher | Bedford/St. Martin's |
| Publishing Year | 2020 |
| Edition | 2nd Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 400 |
Pursuing Happiness: A Bedford Spotlight Reader, 2nd Edition, explores foundational questions regarding human well-being and satisfaction. The volume prompts readers to examine how personal fulfillment is defined, achieved, and evaluated across varied contexts.
The collection brings together viewpoints from psychology, philosophy, economics, and spirituality. Readings prompt students to consider whether happiness can be consciously created or purchased, explore what makes people happy, and examine the ethical questions surrounding the pursuit of fulfillment.
Intended primarily for college and university composition and writing courses, the reader pairs every selection with questions and assignments to support analytical discussion and classroom activities.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What is Happiness?
- • Voltaire, The Good Brahmin
- • His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, The Sources of Happiness
- • Martha C. Nussbaum, Who Is the Happy Warrior? Philosophy Poses Questions to Psychology
- • Darrin M. McMahon, From the Happiness of Virtue to the Virtue of Happiness: 400 BC–AD 1780
- • Sissela Bok, Illusion
- • Sara Ahmed, Happiness and Queer Politics
- • Jon Meacham, Free to Be Happy
Chapter 2: What Makes People Happy?
- • Michael Argyle and Peter Hills, The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire
- • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, If We Are So Rich, Why Aren’t We Happy?
- • National Academy of Sciences, Global Well-Being Ladder
- • Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Can Money Buy Happiness?
- • Hal E. Hershfield, Cassie Mogilner, and Uri Barnea, People Who Choose Time Over Money Are Happier
- • Sonja Lyubomirsky, How Happy Are You and Why?
- • Ed Diener and Martin Seligman, Very Happy People
Chapter 3: Do We Deserve to Be Happy
- • Jennifer Michael Hecht, Remember Death
- • Emily Esfahani Smith, There’s More to Life than Being Happy
- • Giles Fraser, Taking Pills for Unhappiness Reinforces the Idea That Being Sad Is Not Human
- • John Keats, Ode on Melancholy
- • Laren Stover, The Case for Melancholy
- • Naomi Shihab Nye, Kindness
- • The New Economics Foundation, The Happy Planet Index
- • Mohsen Joshanloo and Dan Weijers, Aversion to Happiness across Cultures: A Review of Where and Why People Are Averse to Happiness
- • David Brooks, What Suffering Does
Chapter 4: Can We Create Our Own Happiness?
- • Gretchen Rubin, July: Buy Some Happiness
- • Lucky Strike Cigarettes, Be Happy, Go Lucky
- • Oliver Sacks, My Own Life
- • Graham Hill, Living with Less. A Lot Less.
- • Lucille Clifton, won’t you celebrate with me
- • Noelle Oxenhandler, Ah, But the Breezes . . .
- • Paul E. Jose, Bee T. Lim, and Fred B. Bryant, Does Savoring Increase Happiness? A Daily Diary Study
Chapter 5: Does Technology Make Us Happier?
- • Maria Konnikova, How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy
- • Lynn Stuart Parramore, Happy All the Time
- • Adam Piore, What Technology Can’t Change About Happiness
- • James McWilliams, Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie.
- • Sherry Turkle, Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
- • Max Strom, from There Is No App for Happiness
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