Introduction Chapter 1: The Problem of Happiness 1.1 The Problem of Happiness 1.2 The Problem of Defining Happiness 1.3 The Crisis of Happiness 1.4 Defining Happiness Etymologically 1.5 Luck, Chance, Fate, and Unhappiness Chapter 2: Common Understandings of Happiness 2.1 Drawing a Map from Happiness Literature Chapter 3: Other Understandings of Happiness 3.1 A More Complete Typology of Happiness 3.

2 The Need to Rethink Happiness Philosophically Chapter 4: Negation, Affirmation and Happiness 4.1 Introduction to Ricoeur's Work Regarding Happiness 4.2 The Need for a Real-World Happiness Chapter 5: Happiness And Being Human 5.1 Ricoeur's Philosophical Anthropology and Happiness 5.2 Happiness as Comprehensive and Transcendent 5.3 Ricoeur's Other Relevant Work on Happiness Chapter 6: The Place and Language of Happiness 6.1 The Need for a Dialectics of Happiness, Unhappiness, and Chance 6.2 Is Happiness Out of Bounds? 6.

3 The Optative Mood of Happiness Chapter 7: A Dialectics of Happiness, Unhappiness and Chance 7.1 Ricoeur's Affirmative Philosophy and Happiness 7.2 Happiness, Chance and Capability 7.3 The Dialectic Between Happiness, Unhappiness and Chance Chapter 8: Implications Of Ricoeur's Understanding of Happiness 8.1 Definitions and Problems of Happiness 8.2 Happiness and Religion 8.3 Happiness and the Happiness Sciences 8.4 The Crisis of Happiness: Consumerism and Algorithmic Ecologies Chapter 9: Relevant Happiness 9.

1 Happiness as the Most Important Desire in Life 9.2 Critique of Ricoeur's Understanding of Happiness 9.3 The Challenges of Happiness 9.4 The Possibility of Relevant Happiness References Index.