Friendship and Happiness: And the Connection Between the Two - Softcover

Delaney, Tim; Madigan, Tim

 
9781476668963: Friendship and Happiness: And the Connection Between the Two
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1476668965 ISBN 13: 9781476668963
Verlag: McFarland, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

This philosophical and sociological look at friendship and happiness begins with a review of Aristotle's three categories of friendship--friends of utility, friends of pleasure and friends of the good. Modern variations--casual friends, close friends, best friends--are described, along with the growing phenomena of virtual friendships and cyber socialization in the Internet age. Inspired in part by Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness, the authors propose that conquering unhappiness is key to achieving the self-satisfaction Russell called zest and Aristotle called eudaimonia or thriving by our own efforts.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Delaney is a professor and department chair of sociology at the State University of New York at Oswego. He earned his BS in sociology from SUNY Brockport, MA degree in sociology from California State University Dominquez Hills, and a PhD in sociology from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Delaney has published seventeen books to date and numerous book chapters, journal and encyclopedia articles and has been published in five continents. Among his book publications are, Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: Investigation and Application (2014), American Street Gangs, 2nd edition (2014) and Beyond Sustainability: A Thriving Environment (2014, co-authored with Tim Madigan). Professor Delaney is listed as a "media expert" and regularly grants interviews with newspapers, radio and television news programs primarily across the United States and Canada.

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Verlag
McFarland
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1476668965
ISBN 13 
9781476668963
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
294
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