Beyond Pleasure: Rethinking Wellbeing in a Hedo...

In an age increasingly defined by material excess and the commodification of happiness, Beyond Pleasure offers a critique of dominant paradigms of wellbeing rooted in reductive, hedonistic, and materialist ontologies. Drawing from Islamic intellectual traditions and the multiplex anthropology found in thinkers such as Ibn Khaldun, Salahuddin and Vergil interrogate the foundational assumptions of contemporary social sciences—particularly economics and ethics—that reduce human flourishing to mere pleasure maximization or utilitarian calculus.   (Tanıtım Bülteninden)