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The Promise of Happiness
The Promise of Happiness | Sara Ahmed
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The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: �I just want you to be happy�; (…more)
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Chapter 3, Unhappy Queers: "the conditions of liveability involve a relationship to suffering, to 'what' a life must endure. A bearable life is a life where what must be endured does not threaten that life, in either the bare facts of its existence or in the sense of its aim, direction or purpose."

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