The Art of Gratitude

by Jeremy Engels

In The Art of Gratitude, Jeremy David Engels sketches a genealogy of gratitude from the ancient Greeks to the contemporary self-help movement. One of the most striking things about gratitude, Engels finds, is how consistently it is described using the language of indebtedness. A chief purpose of this, he contends, is to make us more comfortable living lives in debt, with the nefarious effect of pacifying the citizenry so we are less likely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438469330
• ISBN13: 9781438469331
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"