Alone
Reflections on Solitary Living
Seiten
2023
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-765-0 (ISBN)
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-765-0 (ISBN)
A profoundly enlightening look at loneliness in modern life.
At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a shameful failure? And can we ever be happy on our own?
Drawing on personal experience, as well as philosophy and sociology, Daniel Schreiber explores the tension between the desire for solitude and freedom, and for companionship, intimacy and love. Along the way he illuminates the role that friendships play in our lives - can they be a response to the loss of meaning in a world in crisis? A profoundly enlightening book on how we want to live, Alone spent almost a year on Germany's bestseller list.
At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a shameful failure? And can we ever be happy on our own?
Drawing on personal experience, as well as philosophy and sociology, Daniel Schreiber explores the tension between the desire for solitude and freedom, and for companionship, intimacy and love. Along the way he illuminates the role that friendships play in our lives - can they be a response to the loss of meaning in a world in crisis? A profoundly enlightening book on how we want to live, Alone spent almost a year on Germany's bestseller list.
Daniel Schreiber is the author of the Susan Sontag biography Geist und Glamour (2007) as well as the highly praised and widely read essays Nu chtern (2014) and Zuhause (2017). He lives in Berlin, Germany.
Living Alone
The Kindness of Strangers
Conversations with Friends
Never So Lonely
Ambiguous Losses
Days in Famara
Bodywork
Farewells
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.07.2023 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78914-765-4 / 1789147654 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78914-765-0 / 9781789147650 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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