In pursuit of unhappiness: (Record no. 224927)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788194829577
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Transcribing agency AL
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Edition number 23
Classification number 616.85
Item number JAHI
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Personal name Ramin Jahanbegloo
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9 (RLIN) 60459
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Title In pursuit of unhappiness:
Remainder of title Reflections on suicide
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Hyderabad
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Orient Blackswan
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021
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Extent viii,96p.
Other physical details PB
Dimensions 19x13cm.
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Source of price type code General
Price type code 4940
Price amount 236.00
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Unit of pricing 295.00
Price note 20%
Price effective from 17-10-2022
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Summary, etc. In today’s world, happiness and wellbeing are often dictated to us by the State or by mass culture and shallow, consumerist and false modes of being. Not to be happy is, by definition, to be marginal, a misfit and a dissenter. In such a world, unhappiness becomes the forbidden universe of those for whom it is an act of dissent against the normative collective experience of conformism, contentment and mediocrity. It also exhorts us to closely examine the meaning of happiness. The pursuit of unhappiness, then, is to confront life in its totality, and presents an alternate horizon of truth, meaning and Value for human beings, says renowned philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo. Life is a beautiful adventure which deserves to be lived for its own sake, fully and well; but a life full of pain without an exit door is a dark and Lonely prison. Suicide, rather than being an act of despair or hatred of life, is the ultimate Act of human freedom and agency by which individuals have shown that they control their destiny, and opposed the tyranny of power, be it of society or the state. This freedom belongs to those who have the courage to live an ‘examined’ life, and strive to preserve their marginality, integrity and autonomy. In a violent, indifferent world without God and without hope, suicide offers the fragile mortal grappling with meaningless suffering a mode of transcendence and immortality, and freedom from the fear of death, which is, as Montaigne said, ‘the origin of another life…’.
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Target audience note Table of Contents:<br/>I Introduction: Why Suicide?<br/>II Philosophical Suicides<br/>III Suicide and Modernity<br/>IV Poetry and Suicide: Paul Celan<br/>V The Aesthetics of Suicide: Yukio Mishima<br/>VI Conclusion: The Pursuit of Unhappiness<br/>Bibliography
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Philosophical Suicides
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Suicide and Modernity
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Poetry and Suicide
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Aesthetics of Suicide
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Personal name JAHANBEGLOO (Ramin)
9 (RLIN) 60376
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          General St Aloysius College (Autonomous) St Aloysius College (Autonomous) 10/21/2022 Biblios Book Point, Surathkal, Mangalore-575014 236.00 1 616.85 JAHI 076146 04/20/2023 04/06/2023 295.00 10/28/2022 Book

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