Happiness
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What’s it about?
A sweeping history revealing that our modern obsession with happiness is a recent invention—once a matter of luck or divine grace, now a personal obligation we chase, measure, and feel cheated by.
You’ll learn
- Happiness originally meant luck or chance
- Early Christians saw happiness as an afterlife reward
- The Enlightenment made happiness a universal right
- Intense pursuit of happiness can make it elusive