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 environmentalhappiness 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.
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.
Luķsa Magalhćes is Assistant Professor and Researcher in Communication Sciences at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and is especially interested in the relationship between children, media and market behaviours.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.
Joćo 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.
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