Happiness as enterprise : an essay on neoliberal life /
"Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory"--Provided by publisher.
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the new happiness
- An essay on neoliberal life
- The hinge of power
- To govern happily
- Happiness as potentiality
- How to be happy
- Positive psychology
- The emotional fold
- Horizons of policy
- The folding of happiness : a polemic
- When will I be happy?
- Time within time
- Happiness as generative temporality
- Risk and emotional life
- Growth, strength and the temporality of the living
- Habits of the happy
- Habitus of conduct
- Temporalization as intensification
- Convulsive temporalities
- The work of neoliberal governmentality
- The happiness of all and each
- A genealogy of happiness
- Pure obedience and reason of state
- Liberalism and the happiness of each
- Happiness as social life
- Interiorities of social government
- The event of happiness
- Disciplining interiority
- Intimacy as equilibrium
- Boredom and the durational habitus
- The alchemy of neoliberalism
- Governmentality and the emotional fold
- Neoliberalism as destructivist project
- Incentivizing intimacy
- And the sociabilities of neoliberalism
- Conclusion: against asphyxiation
- Bibliography.