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Reflections on an American Obsession
出版Princeton University Press, 2010
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6UDhtwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Most of us are taught from a young age to be winners and avoid being losers. But what does it mean to win or lose? And why do we care so much? Does winning make us happy? Winning undertakes an unprecedented investigation of winning and losing in American society, what we are really after as we struggle to win, our collective beliefs about winners and losers, and much more. Francesco Duina argues that victory and loss are not endpoints or final destinations but gateways to something of immense importance to us: the affirmation of our place in the world. But Duina also shows tha.