Alone
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Alone
Reaktion Books, 2023
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Allein
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Bibliography: p. 139-147
Orignally published: Hanser Berlin : München, 2021
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Living Alone
The Kindness of Strangers
Conversations with Friends
Never So Lonely
Ambiguous Losses
Days in Famara
Bodywork
Farewells
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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