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\*\*A concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness.\*\*What does it mean to feel happiness? As a state of mind, it's elusive. As a concept--despite the plethora of pop psychology books on the subject--it's poorly understood. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psychologist Tim Lomas offers a concise and engaging overview of our current understanding of happiness. Lomas explains that although the field of positive psychology, which focuses on happiness, emerged only in the last twenty-five years, interest in the meaning of happiness goes back several millennia. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, from philosophy and sociology to economics and anthropology, Lomas offers an expansive vision of what happiness means, exploring a significant range of experiential territory.After considering such related concepts as wellbeing and flourishing, Lomas traces ideas of happiness from the ancient Buddhist...
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- Author
- Tim Lomas
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.25 / 5 (135 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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