Happiness and Unhappiness as a "Jewish Question"

• Autores: Sander L. Gilman
• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 2, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Happiness), págs. 545-568
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Happiness is multiple, conflicting ideas - often changing from context to context with each change presaging a cascade of different meanings and interpretations. In this essay I shall try to link a number of them in a manner that is not causal but, I hope, rather evocative. I want to begin with a specific "Jewish" turn in the history of the concept of happiness at the close of the nineteenth century - one that turns out not to be very "Jewish" in its origin - and conclude with some thoughts on Michael Jackson and our need to understand happiness in the twenty-first century