![]() ![]() In this brilliant and provocative book, Segal proposes that the power of true happiness can only be discovered collectively. 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. 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. James Butler is joined by Lynne Segal, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, and longstanding left feminist, to discuss her radical happiness, utopia and political joy. Segal believes we have lost the art of “radical happiness”-the liberation that comes with transformative, collective joy. 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. Happiness, Segal gently reminds us, is not something we find nor can it be bought on the market. ![]() In an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. BHD 17 Product Details Product Description Customer Questions & Answers Customer Ratings Review this product Lynne Segal Politics & Government reviews by. In her book, Segal posits radical happiness as the antidote, not only to the ersatz happiness that is sold to us via pills, apps, and self-help guides but also to the more general sense of despondency. A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our lives ![]()
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