| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (colour) |
| Series |
The humanities and human flourishing |
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Humanities and human flourishing.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Series -- History and Human Flourishing -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. History, the Humanities, and the Human -- 2. In Defense of Presentism -- 3. The Power of a Well-Told History -- 4. Well-Being and a Usable Past: The Role of Historical Diagnosis -- 5. Living the Good Life, Even Without Trying: The Strange Case of Consistent Luckiness in Aristotle -- 6. The Historical Sublime -- 7. Flourishing with Herodotus -- 8. On the Consolations of History -- 9. "Beauty Is Universal": Virtue, Aesthetics, Emotion, and Race in James Logan's Atlantic Moral Sense Philosophy -- 10. Toward a History of Black Happiness: Or, What Can African American History Tell Us about the Cultivation of Well-Being? -- Index |
| Summary |
This edited volume is devoted to an examination of the relationship between history and human flourishing and, more broadly, investigates the ways in which the arts and humanities are related to human well-being. The essays represent the efforts of a varied and distinguished group of professional historians to consider a deceptively simple question: what is the value of history for life? In response to that question, each author asks in what ways historians, their work, and the objects of their inquiry might contribute to human well-being and how they might be encouraged to do so |
| Notes |
Also issued in print: 2023 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed January 22, 2024) |
| Subject |
History -- Philosophy.
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Success.
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Well-being.
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comfort (sensation)
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History -- Philosophy
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Success
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Well-being
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History.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McMahon, Darrin M., editor, author.
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| ISBN |
9780197625309 |
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0197625304 |
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9780197625293 |
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0197625290 |
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