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Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy
by Eric G. Wilson
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Against Happiness In Praise of Melancholy Eric G Wilson Against Happiness In Praise of Melancholy Eric G Wilson on FREE shipping on qualifying offers We are addicted to happiness More than any other generation Americans today believe in the power of positive thinking But who says were supposed to be happy In Against Happiness Against Happiness In Praise of Melancholy by Eric G Wilson Against Happiness In Praise of Melancholy by Eric G Wilson is a philosophical meditation on todays obsession with happiness the constant fight to eradicate any trace of sadness or melancholy and any moment of doubt and inner questioning by all means including numbing entertainment medication excessive insistence on positive thinking and vilification of blueness He argues that all these lead to a diluted existence indeed to a refusal of true existence itself Against Happiness In Praise of Melancholy Eric G Wilson Against Happiness In Praise of Melancholy Eric G Wilson on FREE shipping on qualifying offers We are addicted to happiness More than any other generation Americans today believe in the power of positive thinking But who says we’re supposed to be happy In Against Happiness In Praise of Melancholy and How It Enriches Our Capacity In the remainder of Against Happiness In Praise of Melancholy Wilson goes on to explore how we can avoid falling in the trap of such shallow and superficial “happiness” reap the spiritual benefits of darker emotions and learn to be ennobled and creatively empowered rather than consumed by them Against Happiness In Praise of Melancholy The Christian As the cranky title suggests this slim volume is more than a celebration of the wisdom of melancholy it is also a polemic against what Wilson takes to be the American cult of happiness a cult that medicalizes even the mildest forms of jangled nerves and malaise Against Happiness In Praise of Melancholy Eric G Wilson In Against Happiness In Praise of Melancholy Wilson suggests it would be better to relish the blues that make humans people Eric G Wilson is the Thomas H Pritchard Professor of English at Wake Forest University in WinstonSalem North Carolina Against Happiness Eric G Wilson Macmillan In Against Happiness the scholar Eric G Wilson argues that melancholia is necessary to any thriving culture that it is the muse of great literature painting music and innovation—and that it is the force underlying original insights
