Happiness as enterprise
Subtitle: an essay on neoliberal life
By: Sam Binkley
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781438449838
Subjects: Happiness; Self-culture; Neoliberalism; Power (Social sciences); The State
Description: "Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the new happiness; title: An essay on neoliberal life; title: The hinge of power; title: To govern happily; title: Happiness as potentiality; title: How to be happy; title: Positive psychology; title: The emotional fold; title: Horizons of policy; title: The folding of happiness : a polemic; title: When will I be happy?; title: Time within time; title: Happiness as generative temporality; title: Risk and emotional life; title: Growth, strength and the temporality of the living; title: Habits of the happy; title: Habitus of conduct; title: Temporalization as intensification; title: Convulsive temporalities; title: The work of neoliberal governmentality; title: The happiness of all and each; title: A genealogy of happiness; title: Pure obedience and reason of state; title: Liberalism and the happiness of each; title: Happiness as social life; title: Interiorities of social government; title: The event of happiness; title: Disciplining interiority; title: Intimacy as equilibrium; title: Boredom and the durational habitus; title: The alchemy of neoliberalism; title: Governmentality and the emotional fold; title: Neoliberalism as destructivist project; title: Incentivizing intimacy; title: And the sociabilities of neoliberalism; title: Conclusion: against asphyxiation; title: Bibliography.