by Theodore Zeldin · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213021478
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«Le bonheur» is Theodore Zeldin's philosophical essay, published by Fayard in paperback (in French).
Theodore Zeldin imagines people who could live forever and do everything they wanted, and recounts their attempts to achieve happiness each in their own way. He reflects on whether happiness is an outdated idea and proposes a 'free history' to look to the future without despair or utopia, with humor as an essential ingredient.
The essay was published in 1988; its author, a historian and professor at Oxford, wrote Histoire des passions françaises in five volumes and a study of the French that was a success in 1983.
For readers of philosophy and the history of ideas who are looking for a reflection on happiness and the future.
Theodore Zeldin is a British historian and current Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford. He is the author of A History of French Passions, a quotidian history of the French people, as well as An Intimate History of Humanity. He is also a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, having previously been its dean for 13 years, and a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature.
