The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death — Who Defines a Successful Life?
What happens when a culture stops imagining life as a cycle and begins imagining it as a path of progress?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill Lepore as our lens, this Deep Dive investigates how ideas about childhood, adulthood, success, aging, death, and immortality have been repeatedly reconstructed across history.
Lepore traces a profound transformation in the way Western societies have imagined the human life course. Older religious and natural metaphors pictured life as…
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