Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interested

by Eva Brann

"[Brann] is a person of many strong interests. The central chapter of this book, 'On Being Interested, ' offers a road map to staying happy: cultivate real interests . . . For John Locke and his disciple Thomas Jefferson, happiness is not pleasure. Like those precursors, Brann teaches Americans to free themselves from attachment to superficial gratifications and to pursue a higher-quality contentment with life. She locates this contentment in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589881478
• ISBN13: 9781589881471
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Paul Dry Books
• Length: 612 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"