Overview
- Provides insights into the scholarly connection between the humanities and happiness
- Brings in a complementary approach to social and behavioural science perspectives
- Looks at narrative expressions of happiness as well as metrics and objective indicators
Part of the book series: Happiness Studies Book Series (HAPS)
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Keywords
- Happiness
- Well-being
- Crisis
- Happiness Narratives
- Virtues and Resilience
- Hope as a Response to Crisis
- Cartographies and Metrics of Happiness
- Happiness in Literature
- Happiness and Sustainability
- Projects and Promises of Happiness
- Happiness and Spirituality
- Happiness and Religion
- Spirituality
- Resilience
- Depression
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Maria José Ferreira Lopes is Assistant Professor and Researcher in Humanities at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and is particularly interested in the classical heritage and its influence on Portuguese authors.
Bruno Nobre is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. His main research interests are philosophy of physics, virtue ethics, and philosophy of religion.
João Carlos Onofre Pinto is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. His main research interests are phenomenology, noology, Spanish contemporary philosophy, and philosophy of religion.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Humanistic Perspectives in Happiness Research
Editors: Luísa Magalhães, Maria José Ferreira Lopes, Bruno Nobre, João Carlos Onofre Pinto
Series Title: Happiness Studies Book Series
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38599-5Due: 06 July 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38602-2Due: 06 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38600-8Due: 06 July 2024
Series ISSN: 2213-7513
Series E-ISSN: 2213-7521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 189
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour