The Pursuit of Happiness

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

While happiness is a salient and architectonic concept in political science, its meaning is contested. This panel explores the pursuit of happiness in its individual and social dimensions, through political-theoretical, historical, literary, and comparative lenses. It considers a diverse range of consequential political thinkers, leaders, and literary figures and seeks to uncover what they might teach us about the meaning of the human pursuit of happiness.

Sub Unit

• Partner Associations / Society for Catholic Social Scientists

Individual Presentations

• Monticello or the White House? - Kody Wayne Cooper, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

• Virtue, Eudaimonia, and Warlords - Tiffany Barron, University of Tennessee

• Fitzgerald, Gatsby, and the Fugitive American Dream - Elizabeth Amato, Gardner-Webb University

• Strange Familiarity: Beyond the Urban-Rural Divide - Elly Long, Princeton University

Chair

• Jerome C. Foss Saint Vincent College

Discussant

• Jerome C. Foss Saint Vincent College