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- ISBN 9781923135192
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Affirm Press
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Paperback
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Humans just want to be happy, yes? After all, that’s what life’s all about.
Well ... no.
It turns out that, for a huge chunk of history, feeling good was the furthest thing from our minds. Expecting life to be fun and fulfilling (or, if all else fails, fine) is actually a very recent phenomenon. And there’s every reason to think that it’s making us sad.
A playful tour of Western ‘progress’, from ancient philosophers to modern day pop stars via pills, priests, Proust and the plague, The Importance of Being Miserable explores how, why and when we all started to pursue happiness.
And why feeling bad may not actually be all that bad.
Eamon Evans is the author of fifteen books, one or two of them pretty good. He’s written about history, sport, scandals, words, films, alcohol and urban legends, but until The Importance of Being Miserable he’s not done much with his philosophy degree, apart from bore people at parties. Eamon lives with his family in Melbourne, where he writes, teaches, overwaters his garden and worries about going bald.
