THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: A BOOK OF STUDIES AND STROWINGS

Category Health & Fitness
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 195

ISBN: 978-93-5520-064-8
Pages: 240 pages
Date: 10th November 2021

ABOUT THIS BOOK

‘I do not know what it is except that it is something grand, and that it is Happiness.’
—Walt Whitman
‘Happiness is not the same as pleasure, but it is generally built upon or grows out of pleasurable feelings. We must begin, our analysis with these, and with their opposites—the painful feelings.’ Daniel G. Brinton has tried to explain what happiness could possibly mean. This book explores pleasure and pain, the hierarchy of enjoyments, the distribution of happiness in the classes of society and in genders, principles to promote one’s own happiness and the consolations of affliction. This classic can be picked up by each one of those who are in an incessant pursuit of finding happiness in life or know someone who might be.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

One of the founding fathers of modern American anthropology, Daniel Garrison Brinton was born in 1837 in Thornbury Township, Pennsylvania. He worked as a surgeon during the American Civil War in the Union Army and was the surgeon-in-charge during 1864–65 of the US Army general hospital at Quincy, Illinois. In 1884, Brinton worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, as a professor of ethnology and archaeology, and then, in 1886, joined the University of Pennsylvania as a professor of archaeology and American linguistics. Notes on the Floridian Peninsula (1859), The Myths of the New World (1868), American Hero-Myths (1882) and The Pursuit of Happiness (1893) are some of his works.