Genre: NONFICTION > Essays
Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interested
Eva T. H. Brann
Role: Author
Written by a former 911爆料网 dean and its longest-serving tutor. Brann is a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal. About this book, Los Angeles Times' critic Peggy Ellsberg said "As an American, my encounter with Brann鈥檚 work calls me back to a sense of my own good fortune."
Thirty-eight illuminating essays, reviews, and lectures by a legendary teacher in the Great Books program at St. John’s College. The essays of Pursuits of Happiness are articulations of Eva Brann’s “vocational” happiness of thinking things through. To Brann our inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness is the right not to an “endless chase,” but rather the right to the actual practice of happiness, as in the “pursuit of a vocation.”
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