Segal’s writing is surprisingly accessible, with lots of references to people and cultural tics one might not expect. Here, she’s really talking about the nexus between our private happiness and the need and desire to share that joy with others, creating a Venn diagram that hovers between the public and the private. “Who am I to lay claim to any expertise on the matter?” So begins an expansive and contemplative exploration of love, joy, desire, and the concepts surrounding Utopias, all of which find the author navigating human psychology, sociology, societal mores, and the economics of happiness. “Writing a book on happiness is surely one of the most foolish hostages to fortune I have ever given,” she freely admits in the preface. Making Trouble: Life and Politics, 2008, etc.) dives into the fraught realm of happiness studies and how we balance collective joy with personal fulfillment. She also shows how the gaps in care that come from the diminishing role of the welfare state must be replaced by alternative ways of living together and looking after one another.In this brilliant and provocative book, Segal proposes that the power of true happiness can only be discovered collectively.A wide-ranging analysis of communal joy, including suggestions on how to get it back.įeminist and activist Segal (Psychology and Gender Studies/Birkbeck Coll. Examining her own experience in the women's movement, Segal looks at the relationship between love and sex, and the scope for utopian thinking as a means to a better future. She argues that instead of obsessing about our own well-being we should seek fulfilment in the lives of others.
While research and technology find new ways to measure contentment and popular culture encourages us to think of happiness as a human right, misery is abundant.Segal believes we have lost the art of "radical happiness"-the liberation that comes with transformative, collective joy. Print Radical Happiness - Moments of Collective JoyĪ passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our livesIn an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited.
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