Against Happiness
Subtitle: In Praise of Melancholy
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: January 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780374240660
Subjects: Emotions; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Creativity; Creative Ability; Depression; Melancholy; Psychology
Description: Looks at the American quest for happiness and rejection of melancholy and argues that melancholia is actually essential to a thriving culture, the underlying impetus for creative thinking, and the muse of great art and innovation.