Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy

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Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. But at what cost? In an age of increasing individualism, we have never been more alone and miserable. But what if the true nature of happiness can only be found in others? In Radical Happiness, leading feminist thinker Lynne Segal believes that we have lost the art of radical happiness-the art of transformative, collective joy. She shows that only in the revolutionary potential of coming together it is that we can come to understand the powers of flourishing. Radical Happiness is a passionate call for the re-discovery of the political and emotional joy that emerge when we learn to share our lives together.

Lynne Segal is Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College. Her books include Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism; Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men; and Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure. She co-wrote Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism with Sheila Rowbotham and Hilary Wainwright. Her most recent book was Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Aging.

A powerful manifesto for dealing with the march of time. * Observer [Out of Time] * Compassionate, seasoned, honest, and wise, which asks questions about age but aims to enlighten, rather than frighten us. -- Elaine Showalter * [Out of Time] * A profound and lively examination of what it means to age, to confront the prejudices against the old, and to find a way to affirm their passion and fantasy, their bonds, and their sorrows -- Judith Butler * [Out of Time] * Wide ranging in its analyses of feminist, political and social theory -- Margaret Drabble * [Out of Time] * She turns on the subject a critical eye honed by social psychology, psychoanalysis, feminism and radical politics. An original, probing and unsettling exploration -- Stuart Hall * [Out of Time] *