Sustainability, Wellbeing and the Posthuman Turn by Thomas S. J. Smith

Author:Thomas S. J. Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783319940786
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Ryan et al. (2013, p. 141), central proponents of contemporary psychological research in the eudaimonic tradition, similarly argue that the urge to simply maximise hedonic pleasure is ‘too often associated with dead-end routes to wellness such as selfishness, materialism, objectified sexuality, and ecological destructiveness, thus demonstrating how easily a map derived from hedonic thinking can mislead’. Moreover, they assert that the empirical relationship between eudaimonic and hedonic happiness is such that the former appears to yield a ‘more stable and enduring’ (ibid., p. 142) sense of well-being . Eudaimonic research has itself undergone critique, however, in part due to claims of its paternalistic and often prescriptive tendencies, while its depth as a research programme has been brought into question with the rise of various ‘components approaches’ which reduce this complex issue to a limited number of discrete and pre-defined categories and numerical variables (Atkinson 2013). As we will see below, this tendency has led to a very particular ontology—or theory of being—of the ‘wellbeing ’ subject (White 2010).

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