Alone : reflections on solitary living
Schreiber, Daniel2025
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A moving meditation on the tension between loneliness and freedom, individualism and love. 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 the desire for companionship, intimacy, and love. Along the way he illuminates the role that friendships play in our lives.
Main title:
Alone : reflections on solitary living / Daniel Schreiber ; translation by Ben Fergusson.
Imprint:
London : Sceptre, 2025.London : Sceptre, 2025.
Collation:
160 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.This edition originally published: London: Reaktion, 2023.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781399744096 (pbk)
Dewey class:
306.815
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
3037656