The Promise of Happiness

No time to write an elaborate review. I'll just say I loved it. Eminently quotable, speaks to much of what I'm working on right now (whether it's happiness for whom, or critiquing activity vs passivity, or going after the affirmative turn, or hope as anxiety). I have my hesitations: for example: not sure why she concludes one chapter looking to filmic dreck like The Island, Antz, and Bee Movie for examples of unhappiness as 'an alternative social gift, as this dreck leads me to believe that the supposedly left political thrust of book could just as well have gone the other way. To my hesitations I say whatever: they'll have to wait.

Tiene la habilidad maravillosa de armar un libro con todos los puntos de vista distinguibles para una sola idea. Su lógica es muy explícita y seguible. Duele cuando no se conoce la referencia a otro libro o película que usa como ejemplo.

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