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Author: Mark KingwellEdition: 1
Publisher: Crown PubISBN-10: 0609605356
Category: PsychologyISBN-13: 9780609605356
 --Format: Hardcover
 --Publication Year: 2000
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Kingswell dives into that cultural kiddie pool called the "happiness industry," surfacing to take deep breaths of Plato, Boethius, and others. This is an engaging exploration of what it is to be happy and the means that society employs to achieve this elusive state of mind.

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Length:392 pages
Height:9.5 in.
Width:6.5 in.
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Weight:26.4 oz.

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Addresses the philosophical question about the nature of happiness, why it is so elusive, and how to make it a definitive part of our lives, in a lively collection of essays and observations that ranges from the ancient works of Plato to the modern consumer and high-tech society.

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"His prose may have a self-satisfied and self-preoccupied air...but on the things that count his instincts are sound."
Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley (07/15/2000)

"With this trenchant yet good-natured book, Mark Kingwell places himself in an honorable tradition of thinkers with the audacity to think that thinking about the nature of happiness might not only be interesting but also contribute to happiness....Kingwell is a young Canadian philosopher with an eye for a felicitous phrase and a taste for the happy meander. His easygoing book is a loose-jointed succession of essays dotted with revelations of down-home perplexities, picaresque adventures and personal quandaries concerning religion, drugs, consumption, solitude, marriage, academia and other challenges....Perhaps without meaning to, he has written an amiable guide to the best thinking about happiness that doubles as a self-help book for those who wouldn't be caught dead reading self-help books."
Los Angeles Times - Todd Gitlin (07/23/2000)


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In Pursuit of Happiness : Better Living from Plato to Prozac

Mark Kingwell

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Binding: Hardcover
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ISBN: 0609605356
Publication Date: 2000-07-05
Publisher: Crown
Pages: 416
Height: 1.2900 inches
Width: 6.5200 inches
Weight: 1.5900 pounds

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