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A carregar... Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness (edição 2010)por Willard Spiegelman (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. "Reading -- I am tempted to call it 'the best reading' -- is endangered now not only because our culture has become visual and obsessed with images, but also, and more dangerously, because the culture has become a mass one. The most popular activities are performed in groups -- music, sports, spectacular public entertainment, whereas the best readers are idiosyncratic solitaries. We have to much noise, especially when we least desire it. At the theater, at a concert, or at the movies, people behave as though they are still in their living rooms, sharing opinions that no one else wants to hear, whether loudly or quietly doesn't matter. To sit still in one place, especially in the presence of others, is a dying or at least an endangered custom. So where does this leave poor reading? Sitting alone, in quiet, in one's room: how many have the capacity to do that? Maybe very few ever have; perhaps 'the best reading' has always been the professor's chimerical dream" (53). ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
What does it mean to be happy? Americans have had an obsession with "the pursuit of happiness" ever since the Founding Fathers enshrined it--along with life and liberty--as our national birthright. Whether it means the accumulation of wealth or a more vaguely understood notion of self-fulfillment or self-actualization, happiness has been an inevitable, though elusive, goal. But it is hard to separate "real" happiness from the banal self-help version that embraces mindless positive thinking. And though we have two booming "happiness industries"--religion, with its promise of salvation, and psychopharmacology, with its promise of better living through chemistry--each comes with its own problems and complications. InSeven Pleasures, Willard Spiegelman takes a look at the possibilities for achieving ordinary secular happiness without recourse to either religion or drugs. In this erudite and frequently hilarious book of essays, he discusses seven activities that lead naturally and easily to a sense of well-being. One of these--dancing--requires a partner, and therefore provides a lesson in civility, or good citizenship, as one of its benefits. The other six--reading, walking, looking, listening, swimming, and writing--are things one performs alone.Seven Pleasuresis a marvelously engaging guide to the pursuit of happiness, and all its accompanying delights. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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