Pursuing Happiness
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Authors
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Matthew Parfitt
Matthew Parfitt (Ph.D., Boston College) is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Chair of the Division of Rhetoric at Boston University’s College of General Studies.  In 2002 he received the Peyton Richter Award for interdisciplinary teaching. He is coeditor of Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom—And What Instructors Can Do About Them and Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past.
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Dawn Skorczewski
Dawn Skorczewski (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is Professor of English and Director of University Writing at Brandeis University. An Affiliate Scholar at Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, she is the author of Teaching One Moment at a Time: Disruption and Repair in the Classroom and An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton. She is co-editor of Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom. She was the 2013 Fulbright Professor of American Culture in Amsterdam. For Bedford/St. Martins she has edited, with Matthew Parfitt, Pursuing Happiness: A Bedford Spotlight Reader (2015).
Table of Contents
[[new selections are marked with an asterisk]]
About The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series
Preface for Instructors
Contents by Discipline
Contents by Theme
Contents by Rhetorical Purpose
Introduction for Students
Chapter 1. What is Happiness?
*Voltaire, The Good Brahmin
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, The Sources of Happiness
Martha C. Nussbaum, Who Is the Happy Warrior? Philosophy Poses Questions to Psychology
*Darrin M. McMahon, From the Happiness of Virtue to the Virtue of Happiness: 400 BC–AD 1780
*Sissela Bok, Illusion
*Sara Ahmed, Happiness and Queer Politics
*Jon Meacham, Free to Be Happy
Chapter 2. What Makes People Happy?
Michael Argyle and Peter Hills, The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, If We Are So Rich, Why Aren’t We Happy?
National Academy of Sciences, Global Well-Being Ladder
Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Can Money Buy Happiness?
*Hal E. Hershfield, Cassie Mogilner, and Uri Barnea, People Who Choose Time Over Money Are Happier
Sonja Lyubomirsky, How Happy Are You and Why?
Ed Diener and Martin Seligman, Very Happy People
Chapter 3. Do We Deserve to Be Happy
Jennifer Michael Hecht, Remember Death
*Emily Esfahani Smith, There’s More to Life than Being Happy
Giles Fraser, Taking Pills for Unhappiness Reinforces the Idea That Being Sad Is Not Human
John Keats, Ode on Melancholy
*Laren Stover, The Case for Melancholy
*Naomi Shihab Nye, Kindness
*The New Economics Foundation, The Happy Planet Index
Mohsen Joshanloo and Dan Weijers, Aversion to Happiness across Cultures: A Review of Where and Why People Are Averse to Happiness
David Brooks, What Suffering Does
Chapter 4. Can We Create Our Own Happiness?
Gretchen Rubin, July: Buy Some Happiness
*Lucky Strike Cigarettes, Be Happy, Go Lucky
*Oliver Sacks, My Own Life
Graham Hill, Living with Less. A Lot Less.
*Lucille Clifton, won’t you celebrate with me
Noelle Oxenhandler, Ah, But the Breezes . . .
*Paul E. Jose, Bee T. Lim, and Fred B. Bryant, Does Savoring Increase Happiness? A Daily Diary Study
Chapter 5. Does Technology Make Us Happier?
*Maria Konnikova, How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy
*Lynn Stuart Parramore, Happy All the Time
*Adam Piore, What Technology Can’t Change About Happiness
*James McWilliams, Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie.
*Sherry Turkle, Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
*Max Strom, from There Is No App for Happiness
*Sentence Guides for Academic Writers
Acknowledgements
Index of Authors and Titles
Product Updates
20 new reading selections that include more disciplines and flexibility for teaching about happiness in your course. For example,
- Sherry Turkle, in “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk,” touches on the threats to happiness in the digital age.
- Lauren Stover, in “The Case for Melancholy,” writes about the value of embracing a somber mood.
- Emily Esfahani Smith, in “There’s More to Life than Being Happy,” draws distinctions between being happy and leading a meaningful life.
A new chapter on technology. Based on feedback from instructors, Pursuing Happiness now features a new chapter on technology. Chapter 5 asks students to consider the effect technology has on our social and emotional wellbeing, and the complicated question of whether or not our smartphones and social media accounts are actually making us happier. Essays include a look at surveillance in the workplace from Lynn Stuart Parramore, Sherry Turkle’s strategies to help stay human amid technology overload, Max Strom’s take on the impact of misuse of technology, and more.
An appendix, "Sentence Guides for Academic Writers." This section helps with an essential skill: working with and responding to others’ ideas. This practical module helps students develop an academic writing voice by giving them sentence guides, or templates, to follow in a variety of composing situations.
Authors
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Matthew Parfitt
Matthew Parfitt (Ph.D., Boston College) is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Chair of the Division of Rhetoric at Boston University’s College of General Studies.  In 2002 he received the Peyton Richter Award for interdisciplinary teaching. He is coeditor of Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom—And What Instructors Can Do About Them and Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past.
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Dawn Skorczewski
Dawn Skorczewski (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is Professor of English and Director of University Writing at Brandeis University. An Affiliate Scholar at Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, she is the author of Teaching One Moment at a Time: Disruption and Repair in the Classroom and An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton. She is co-editor of Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom. She was the 2013 Fulbright Professor of American Culture in Amsterdam. For Bedford/St. Martins she has edited, with Matthew Parfitt, Pursuing Happiness: A Bedford Spotlight Reader (2015).
Table of Contents
[[new selections are marked with an asterisk]]
About The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series
Preface for Instructors
Contents by Discipline
Contents by Theme
Contents by Rhetorical Purpose
Introduction for Students
Chapter 1. What is Happiness?
*Voltaire, The Good Brahmin
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, The Sources of Happiness
Martha C. Nussbaum, Who Is the Happy Warrior? Philosophy Poses Questions to Psychology
*Darrin M. McMahon, From the Happiness of Virtue to the Virtue of Happiness: 400 BC–AD 1780
*Sissela Bok, Illusion
*Sara Ahmed, Happiness and Queer Politics
*Jon Meacham, Free to Be Happy
Chapter 2. What Makes People Happy?
Michael Argyle and Peter Hills, The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, If We Are So Rich, Why Aren’t We Happy?
National Academy of Sciences, Global Well-Being Ladder
Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Can Money Buy Happiness?
*Hal E. Hershfield, Cassie Mogilner, and Uri Barnea, People Who Choose Time Over Money Are Happier
Sonja Lyubomirsky, How Happy Are You and Why?
Ed Diener and Martin Seligman, Very Happy People
Chapter 3. Do We Deserve to Be Happy
Jennifer Michael Hecht, Remember Death
*Emily Esfahani Smith, There’s More to Life than Being Happy
Giles Fraser, Taking Pills for Unhappiness Reinforces the Idea That Being Sad Is Not Human
John Keats, Ode on Melancholy
*Laren Stover, The Case for Melancholy
*Naomi Shihab Nye, Kindness
*The New Economics Foundation, The Happy Planet Index
Mohsen Joshanloo and Dan Weijers, Aversion to Happiness across Cultures: A Review of Where and Why People Are Averse to Happiness
David Brooks, What Suffering Does
Chapter 4. Can We Create Our Own Happiness?
Gretchen Rubin, July: Buy Some Happiness
*Lucky Strike Cigarettes, Be Happy, Go Lucky
*Oliver Sacks, My Own Life
Graham Hill, Living with Less. A Lot Less.
*Lucille Clifton, won’t you celebrate with me
Noelle Oxenhandler, Ah, But the Breezes . . .
*Paul E. Jose, Bee T. Lim, and Fred B. Bryant, Does Savoring Increase Happiness? A Daily Diary Study
Chapter 5. Does Technology Make Us Happier?
*Maria Konnikova, How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy
*Lynn Stuart Parramore, Happy All the Time
*Adam Piore, What Technology Can’t Change About Happiness
*James McWilliams, Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie.
*Sherry Turkle, Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
*Max Strom, from There Is No App for Happiness
*Sentence Guides for Academic Writers
Acknowledgements
Index of Authors and Titles
Product Updates
20 new reading selections that include more disciplines and flexibility for teaching about happiness in your course. For example,
- Sherry Turkle, in “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk,” touches on the threats to happiness in the digital age.
- Lauren Stover, in “The Case for Melancholy,” writes about the value of embracing a somber mood.
- Emily Esfahani Smith, in “There’s More to Life than Being Happy,” draws distinctions between being happy and leading a meaningful life.
A new chapter on technology. Based on feedback from instructors, Pursuing Happiness now features a new chapter on technology. Chapter 5 asks students to consider the effect technology has on our social and emotional wellbeing, and the complicated question of whether or not our smartphones and social media accounts are actually making us happier. Essays include a look at surveillance in the workplace from Lynn Stuart Parramore, Sherry Turkle’s strategies to help stay human amid technology overload, Max Strom’s take on the impact of misuse of technology, and more.
An appendix, "Sentence Guides for Academic Writers." This section helps with an essential skill: working with and responding to others’ ideas. This practical module helps students develop an academic writing voice by giving them sentence guides, or templates, to follow in a variety of composing situations.
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Pursuing Happiness: A Bedford Spotlight Reader explores questions around the central concept of what makes us happy: What is the psychology of happiness? Can we make or buy our own happiness? How should we question what makes us happy? How can we make ourselves and others happy? Does technology make us happy? Readings by philosophers, psychologists, spiritual leaders, ethicists, economists, and others take up these issues and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provides a range of activities for students. The catalog page for the titles in the Spotlight Series offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.Looking for instructor resources like Test Banks, Lecture Slides, and Clicker Questions? Request access to Achieve to explore the full suite of instructor resources.
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Pursuing Happiness: A Bedford Spotlight Reader explores questions around the central concept of what makes us happy: What is the psychology of happiness? Can we make or buy our own happiness? How should we question what makes us happy? How can we make ourselves and others happy? Does technology make us happy? Readings by philosophers, psychologists, spiritual leaders, ethicists, economists, and others take up these issues and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provides a range of activities for students. The catalog page for the titles in the Spotlight Series offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.
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