"The Promise of Happiness" is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: 'I just want you to be happy', 'I'm happy if you're happy'. Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the 'happiness duty', the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy. Ahmed maintains that happiness is a promise that directs us toward certain life choices and away from others. Happiness is promised to those willing to live their lives in the right way. Ahmed draws on the intellectual history of happiness, from classical accounts of ethics as the good life, through seventeenth-century writings on affect and the passions, eighteenth-century debates on virtue and education, and nineteenth-century utilitarianism. She engages with feminist, antiracist, and queer critics who have shown how happiness is used to justify social oppression, and how challenging oppression sometimes causes unhappiness. Reading novels and films including "Mrs. Dalloway", "The Well of Loneliness", "Bend It Like Beckham", and Children of Men, Ahmed considers the plight of the figures who are challenged by, and themselves challenge, the attribution of happiness to particular objects or social ideals: the feminist killjoy, the unhappy queer, the angry black woman, and the melancholic migrant. Through her readings, she raises critical questions about the moral order imposed by the injunction to be happy.
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#還記得Charles, whose happiness bears no relation to Happiness...
评分#還記得Charles, whose happiness bears no relation to Happiness...
评分還是從現象學齣發來討論happiness,Ahmed的觀點是它不僅是一種情感反饋，更重要的是一種"bodily orientation towards specific objects"，然後就可以在objects這個層麵上去衡量(un)happiness.好Reasoning
评分還是從現象學齣發來討論happiness,Ahmed的觀點是它不僅是一種情感反饋，更重要的是一種"bodily orientation towards specific objects"，然後就可以在objects這個層麵上去衡量(un)happiness.好Reasoning
评分還是從現象學齣發來討論happiness,Ahmed的觀點是它不僅是一種情感反饋，更重要的是一種"bodily orientation towards specific objects"，然後就可以在objects這個層麵上去衡量(un)happiness.好Reasoning
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