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    The Happiness Myth: An Expose
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    The Happiness Myth: An Expose
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    The Happiness Myth: An Expose

    By Jennifer Hecht

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    Jennifer Michael Hecht explodes the myths about happiness, liberating us from the message that there's only one way to care for our hearts, minds, and bodies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061744891
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    The Happiness Myth: An Expose
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    Jennifer Hecht

    Jennifer Michael Hecht is a philosopher, historian, and award-winning poet. She is the author of Doubt: A History and The End of the Soul; the latter won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2004 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. Hecht's books of poetry include The Next Ancient World and Funny. She earned her Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and teaches at The New School in New York City.

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    • 3/5
      There's a lot of substance and a lot of interesting history in this book, but it's frequently not easy to extract the content from the writing. The author is overly fond of obscure analogies, cute witticisms, and a sort of stream-of-consciousness style that requires an unreasonable amount of effort from the reader (and I am, I like to think, not an extremely lazy reader) to follow her train of thought. I found myself, for substantial sections of text, wanting to find and personally berate her editor. Other parts are much more intelligible, and there is plenty that's worth thinking about, although there are also subjects that she treats in a rather facile way. Neuroscience especially gets rather superficial and overly simplified discussion, which bothered me since this is an area where I am more knowledgeable. Her tendency to bend neuroscience to support her particular arguments also made me distrustful of her arguments in areas of philosophy and history that I know less about.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      intelligent, stimulating, unusual

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    • 3/5
      The definition of happiness changes over time. So what is happiness? Jennifer Michael Hecht reviews the history of happiness, trying to help us determine what will make us happy in our modern lives.This is not a self-help book; it is an interesting romp though history, culture and human weirdness.

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    • 1/5
      Too obscurely written.