Shādkāmī, Shukufāyī va Zindigī-yi Khūb: Persiska (Farsi) 1402

Well-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field, with data being gathered from different domains to improve social policies. In its reliance on a truncated account of well-being based implicitly on neoclassical economic assumptions, however, the field is deeply flawed. Departing from reductive accounts of well-being that exclude the normative or evaluative aspect of the concept and so impoverish the attendant conception of human life, this book offers a new perspective on what counts normatively as being well. In reconceptualizing well-being holistically, it presents a fresh vista on how we can consider the meanings of human life in a manner that also serves as a source of constructive social critique. The book thus undertakes to invert the usual approach to the social sciences, in which the research is required to be objective in terms of methodology and subjective about evaluative claims. Instead, the authors are deliberately objective about values to be more open to the subjectivities of human life. Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life thus seek to move away from economic considerations’ domination of all social spaces to understand the possibilities of well-being beyond instrumentalization or commodification. A radical new approach to human well-being, this book will appeal to philosophers, social theorists and political scientists, and all who are interested in human happiness.