In this brilliant and provocative book, Segal proposes that the power of true happiness can only be discovered collectively. She shows that only in the revolutionary potential of coming together it is that we can come to understand the powers of flourishing.Radical Happiness is a passionate call for the re. She also shows how the gaps in care that come from the diminishing role of the welfare state must be replaced by alternative ways of living together and looking after one another. In Radical Happiness, leading feminist thinker Lynne Segal believes that we have lost the art of radical happiness the art of transformative, collective joy. Examining her own experience in the women’s movement, Segal looks at the relationship between love and sex, and the scope for utopian thinking as a means to a better future. She argues that instead of obsessing about our own well-being we should seek fulfilment in the lives of others. Segal believes we have lost the art of “radical happiness”-the liberation that comes with transformative, collective joy. And in pursuing a new, radical politics of collective joy. She believes in re-framing happiness as a collective good. British feminist Lynne Segal wants to make happiness political again. While research and technology find new ways to measure contentment and popular culture encourages us to think of happiness as a human right, misery is abundant. But later generations came to regard happiness as a more personal trait a product of brain chemistry and mental outlook. In an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our lives
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