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Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays
Against Joie de Vivre Personal Essays
Author: Phillip Lopate
?Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live,? begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and forced conviviality moves from a critique of the false sentimentalization of children and the elderly to a sardonic look at the social rite ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780803222731
ISBN-10: 0803222734
Publication Date: 12/1/2008
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Bison Books
Book Type: Paperback
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