by Pascal Bruckner · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa dura · ISBN 9782246582212
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«L'euphorie perpétuelle» is the philosophical essay by Pascal Bruckner, published in 2000 by Grasset & Fasquelle in hardback (281 pages, in French).
Bruckner analyses how happiness, an individual aspiration since the Enlightenment, has become a social demand: the «duty of happiness» forces euphoria and condemns those who fail to achieve it. He criticises wellness therapies, from Buddhism to consumerism, in societies that move from suffering to deserve salvation to suffering to appear happy.
The full title is «L'euphorie perpétuelle: essai sur le devoir de bonheur».
Aimed at readers of essays and philosophy interested in social and cultural criticism; requires proficiency in French.
Pascal Bruckner is a French writer, one of the "New Philosophers" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Much of his work has been devoted to critiques of French society and culture.
