The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

David Malouf

The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Black Inc.
Country
Australia
Published
3 October 2011
Pages
144
ISBN
9781863955461

The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

David Malouf

In a world become ever larger and more impersonal, Malouf finds happiness in an unlikely place.This is a book to savour and reflect upon by one of Australia’s greatest novelists.

What Makes For a Happy Life?

Amid the constant chatter of today’s world, with its 24-hour news cycles, Twitter and mobile communications, David Malouf returns to the ancient question of what makes us happy.
With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life - what it is, and what makes it possible - he returns to the ‘highest wisdom’ of the classics, looks at how, thanks to Thomas Jefferson’s way with words, happiness became a ‘right,’ and contrasts joy in the flesh, as depicted by Rubens and Rembrandt, with the way we view our bodies today.
In a world become ever larger and more impersonal, Malouf finds happiness in an unlikely place.This is a book to savour and reflect upon by one of Australia’s greatest novelists.
‘A rewarding reflection on human restlessness and the need for limits.'The Age
'Entertaining and insightful.'The Sydney Morning Herald
'A wonderful … reflection on happiness in the Western tradition.'The Canberra Times

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