Binkley, Sam,  1963- <br/><br/>
Happiness as enterprise :  an essay on neoliberal life / 
Sam Binkley. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: the new happiness -- An essay on neoliberal life -- The hinge of power -- To govern happily -- Happiness as potentiality -- How to be happy -- Positive psychology -- The emotional fold -- Horizons of policy -- The folding of happiness : a polemic -- When will I be happy? -- Time within time -- Happiness as generative temporality -- Risk and emotional life -- Growth, strength and the temporality of the living -- Habits of the happy -- Habitus of conduct -- Temporalization as intensification -- Convulsive temporalities -- The work of neoliberal governmentality -- The happiness of all and each -- A genealogy of happiness -- Pure obedience and reason of state -- Liberalism and the happiness of each -- Happiness as social life -- Interiorities of social government -- The event of happiness -- Disciplining interiority -- Intimacy as equilibrium -- Boredom and the durational habitus -- The alchemy of neoliberalism -- Governmentality and the emotional fold -- Neoliberalism as destructivist project -- Incentivizing intimacy -- And the sociabilities of neoliberalism -- Conclusion: against asphyxiation -- Bibliography. 
<br/><br/> "Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory"--Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781438449852 (electronic bk.) 1438449852 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Happiness.<br/>Self-culture.<br/>Neoliberalism.<br/>Power (Social sciences)<br/>State, The.<br/>Happiness.<br/>Neoliberalism.<br/>Power (Social sciences)<br/>Self-culture.<br/>State, The.<br/>PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BF575.H27  / .B476 2014eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.5