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This book is a collection of chapters on happiness and well-being. It includes contributions from scientists from all over the world, who present different, multifaceted, dialectically open perspectives and sensitivities regarding happiness. The authors discuss happiness and well-being from biological, biopsychosocial, anthropological, and philosophical points of view.

Happiness.

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This volume sets the start for the Quaderni "Cesare Alfieri", commissioned by the Council of the School of Political Sciences of the University of Florence as a scientific and editorial project aimed at involving all the cultural components animating the School. This work is an attempt to create an occasion of dialogue, research to deepen the acquired knowledge and investigate complex social issues from different points of view. For this first Quaderno - or notebook - the Scientific Committee has decided to focus on the concept of "well-being", to observe it from different perspectives and to relate it to the notion of happiness. The survey aims to offer food for thought, some lines for a path, different views on a theme that constitutes one of the great knots that our democracies must face: the well-being to be conquered, especially in the twentieth century, a real challenge for the beginning of a new Millennium.

Welfare state. --- Happiness. --- Wealth.

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There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. Indeed, material affluence is often accompanied instead by greater social and individual distress. A growing literature within the humanities and social sciences is increasingly concerned to chart not only the underlying trends in recorded levels of happiness, but to consider what factors, if any, contribute to positive and sustainable experiences of well-being and quality of life. Increasingly, such research is focusing on the importance of values and beliefs in human satisfaction or quality of life; but the specific contribution of religion to these trends is relatively under-examined. This unique collection of essays seeks to rectify that omission, by identifying the nature and role of the religious contribution to wellbeing. A unique collection of nineteen leading scholars from the field of economics, psychology, public theology and social policy have been brought together in this volume to explore the religious contribution to the debate about happiness and well-being. These essays explore the religious dimensions to a number of key features of well-being, including marriage, crime and rehabilitation, work, inequality, mental health, environment, participation, institutional theory, business and trade. They engage particularly closely with current trends in economics in identifying alternative models of economic growth which focus on its qualitative as well as quantitative dimensions. This unique volume brings to public notice the nature and role of religion's contribution to wellbeing, including new ways of measurement and evaluation. As such, it represents a valuable and unprecedented resource for the development of a broad-based religious contribution to the field. It will be of particular relevance for those who are concerned about the continuing debate about personal and societal well-being, as well as those who are interested in the continuing significance of religion for the future of public policy.

Happiness --- Economics --- Well-being --- Religious aspects.

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How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fundamental questions about how to live and what it means to be human. Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned less with gauging how happy people are than with how happiness figures as an idea, mood, and motive in everyday life, the book explores how people strive to live well within challenging or even hostile circumstances. The contributors explore how happiness intersects with dominant social values as well as an array of aims and aspirations that are potentially conflicting, demonstrating that not every kind of happiness is seen as a worthwhile aim or evaluated in positive moral terms.

Values. --- Happiness. --- Well-being. --- Quality of life. --- Ethnology --- Comparative method. --- Gladness --- Emotions --- Cheerfulness --- Contentment --- Pleasure --- Well-being

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Wie lassen sich Glück und Nachhaltigkeit verbinden? Um die gegenwärtige ressourcenintensive Lebensweise zu überwinden, braucht es neue Leitbilder von subjektivem Wohlbefinden, die das gute Leben jenseits von Produktion und Konsum verorten. Die bisherige Debatte um Suffizienz und Postwachstum ist dabei vor allem von asketischen Idealen geprägt, welche für die Mehrzahl der Menschen nicht attraktiv erscheinen. Als eine vielversprechende Variante entwickelt Jochen Dallmer das Modell eines aufgeklärten Hedonismus, welcher das Streben nach subjektivem Wohlbefinden zu einem Beitrag für Nachhaltigkeit werden lässt. Besprochen in: Neue Gesellschaft Frankfurter Hefte, 11 (2020), Johano Strasser

Bildung. --- Bildungsforschung. --- Civil Society. --- Consumption. --- Education. --- Educational Research. --- Environmental Policy. --- Glück. --- Glücksforschung. --- Happiness Research. --- Happiness. --- Hedonism. --- Hedonismus. --- Konsum. --- Materialism. --- Materialismus. --- Philosophie. --- Philosophy. --- Political Science. --- Politics. --- Politik. --- Politikwissenschaft. --- Post-growth. --- Postwachstum. --- Prosperity. --- Sufficiently. --- Suffizienz. --- Umweltpolitik. --- Well-being. --- Wohlbefinden. --- Wohlstand. --- Zivilgesellschaft. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy. --- Nachhaltigkeit; Glück; Hedonismus; Politik; Philosophie; Postwachstum; Suffizienz; Konsum; Wohlbefinden; Wohlstand; Glücksforschung; Materialismus; Bildung; Umweltpolitik; Zivilgesellschaft; Bildungsforschung; Politikwissenschaft; Sustainability; Happiness; Hedonism; Politics; Philosophy; Post-growth; Sufficiently; Consumption; Well-being; Prosperity; Happiness Research; Materialism; Education; Environmental Policy; Civil Society; Educational Research; Political Science