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Against Happiness

Name: Against Happiness
ISBN: 0374531668

: In Praise of Melancholy

We are addicted to happiness. More than any other generation, Americans today believe in the power of positive thinking. But who says we're supposed to be happy? In Against Happiness, the scholar Eric G. Wilson argues that melancholia is necessa

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“I for one am afraid that our American culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a wanton forgetting of an essential part of a full life. I further am wary in the face of this possibility: to desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inau…”

— Eric G. Wilson, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Depression, Melancholy, Mental Health, Quote of the Moment