05580nam a22006015i 4500 978-3-031-38600-8 DE-He213 20251030112244.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240601s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031386008 978-3-031-38600-8 10.1007/978-3-031-38600-8 doi BF204.6 JMA bicssc PSY045000 bisacsh JMAP thema Humanistic Perspectives in Happiness Research [electronic resource] / edited by Luísa Magalhães, Maria José Ferreira Lopes, Bruno Nobre, João Carlos Onofre Pinto. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024. X, 189 p. 4 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Happiness Studies Book Series, 2213-7521 Part I Philosophy and spirituality in happiness research -- Contemporary philosophical perspectives on the dialogue between Seneca and Ortega y Gasset regarding human mortality and happiness -- Virtues as a resilience factor in the human pursuit for happiness -- Spirituality as a Factor of Resilience in the Witness of Adult Survivors of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse -- The critical limits of human condition, between hubris and aristeia -- Phenomenological approach to somatic evidence of depression, happiness, and radical hope -- Rediscovering the dynamic of happiness though feelings of self-gift and reciprocity -- Religion as the global horizon of human happiness -- Hope is happiness -- Part II Narratives of happiness in communication and media research -- Between utopia and dystopia: homo digitalis and happiness at a click -- The spectacle of happiness within the photographic idyll -- The communicative role of TV toy advertising in fostering children's happiness through play interaction -- Different representations of happiness in contemporary literary narratives: between the dramatic and the humorous -- The collective selfie: the dubious rhetoric of planetary happiness in celebrity environmental activism -- Part III Investigating happiness in individual and community contexts -- The sustainable happiness semester: a 100-day journal for students -- Education as protective factor in times of transformation and pandemic crisis -- Methodological complexity in the measurement(s) of happiness as a positive experience -- Happiness, wellbeing, and human development in unsettled times: what matters and why? -- Conclusion. . This volume provides innovative perspectives on the scholarly connection between the humanities and happiness, and considers the narrative expressions of happiness and recent investigations about happiness, its metrics, and objective insights about human wellbeing. This volume relates intemporal humanistic values to views across social and behavioural sciences, and thereby covers a broad interdisciplinary frame, from philosophy, psychology, literary studies, to the communication sciences. The philosophers in this volume discuss the achievement of happiness through the cultivation of virtue, as well as the logic of the gift as an experience of personal fulfilment and the fact that happiness is inextricably linked to hope. Their chapters take on the approach of the permanent human struggle to generate global horizons of happiness and thus attain eternal bliss. Scholars from other fields of the humanities and communication sciences consider the positive messages of environmental happiness in virtual platforms, where the Homo digitalis finds happiness at the click of a button, often under the endorsement of celebrities, or under the visual fruition of playful objects. They also present the intertextual memory of happiness as a condition for humanistic research. Finally, this volume considers the sphere of education as the best place in which to apply the results of sustainable happiness measurement and research, and to realize this complementary, humanistic perspective on happiness research. Positive psychology. Well-being. 59309 Quality of life. 62149 Emotions (Philosophy). 60454 Positive Psychology. Well-Being. 59309 Quality of Life Research. 66153 Philosophy of feelings. 77369 Magalhães, Luísa. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 77913 Ferreira Lopes, Maria José. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 77914 Nobre, Bruno. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 77915 Onofre Pinto, João Carlos. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 77916 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031385995 Printed edition: 9783031386015 Printed edition: 9783031386022 Happiness Studies Book Series, 2213-7521 77917 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38600-8 ZDB-2-BSP ZDB-2-SXBP 60328 60328