Manufacturing Happy Citizens: How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control our Lives

A controversial social study on how various coaches, marathons and motivational speakers, under the banner of the persistent imperative of happiness, make us not so happy, but rather manageable citizens, workers and employees. It is a study of one of the leading sociologists of the present. Eva Illouz carefully analyses the phenomenon of ‘positive psychology’, showing how easy it is to bring it in to the service of social institutions, corporations and political doctrines.

Eva Illouz, Edgar Cabanas. Manufacturing Happy Citizens: How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control our Lives / Translated from English by Anna Rakhmanko; Scientific Editor Alexander Pavlov; Executive Editor Alina Klimkina; Literary Editor Nina Gorskaya. - M.: Liod, 2023.