This book argues that the story of the orphan girl Pollyanna (namely, her strategy of playing the “glad games” to manage loss, abuse, and social prejudice) serves as a framework for critiquing historical forms of Western scientific Pollyannaism.
Oksana Yakushko, PhD, is Department Chair and faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, USA.
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1: An Introduction to (Supposedly) Good Life.- Chapter 2: Demonized Emotions and Tortured Bodies in the Age of Scientific Progress.- Chapter 3: The Survival of the Happiest Who (Get To) Control the Resources and Procreation.- Chapter 4: Eugenic Scientific Utopias Filled with Socially Engineered Happy Productive People.- Chapter 5: From the Science of Human Betterment to the Science of Behavioral Control.- Chapter 6: Scientific Pollyannaism of Authentic Happiness, Learned Optimism, Flow and the Empirically Correct Positivity Ratios.- Chapter 7: On Being Pollyanna about Sciences.- The Discovery of Scientism.- Chapter 8: Critics and Critiques of Scientific Pollyannaism.- Chapter 9: Re-telling the Story of Orphaned Girl Named Pollyanna.