Introduction 1. The Brave New World of Well-Being: Happiness as a Commodity from Huxley and Alain to Pharrell and Oprah 2. Happiness, No Thanks!: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and the Critique of Happiness from Freud to Žižek 3. The Happiness of the Text: Morality, Writing, and the Pursuit of Pleasure from Gide to Barthes 4. Real Happiness is Revolutionary: Badiou, Antiphilosophy, and the Metaphysics of Happiness from Spinoza and Pascal to Mallarmé and Beckett
Biography
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is editor and publisher of the American Book Review, founder and editor of the journal symplokē, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.
