Solitude: A Philosophical EncounterOpen Court, 1994 - 375 pages The author identifies five intrinsic virtues of solitude: Freedom of Action; Attunement to Self; Attunement to Nature; Reflective Perspective; and Creativity. The common objections to solitude - that it is empty, pointless, vain, foolish, lonely, dangerous, unnatural, morbid, self-indulgent, selfish, escapist, evasive of social responsibility, irrelevant for post-modern women, and culturally limited to alienated privilege in late stages of capitalism - are each given their say and then critically dismantled. Professor Koch's discussion includes an overview of historical restrictions on solitude for women, as well as contemporary women's writings on solitude, and a detailed study of the role of solitude in the classics of ancient Taoism. |
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Page 81
... course it is hard to know exactly what Lawrence meant by these words ; perhaps he had no quarrel with the claims of solitude to ontic equality with encounter ; perhaps he only wished to speak about the individualism which unfolds in ...
... course it is hard to know exactly what Lawrence meant by these words ; perhaps he had no quarrel with the claims of solitude to ontic equality with encounter ; perhaps he only wished to speak about the individualism which unfolds in ...
Page 208
... course of action was to cite famous characters who had chosen that course , and over a third of Petrarch's book is a compilation of brief case histories of famous solitaries in pagan and Christian antiquity ( often dubious , as in " Of ...
... course of action was to cite famous characters who had chosen that course , and over a third of Petrarch's book is a compilation of brief case histories of famous solitaries in pagan and Christian antiquity ( often dubious , as in " Of ...
Page 254
... course , things sometimes went wrong : having followed the social imperative into marriage , a woman might fail in the duties of her station . In The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs ( 1865 ) , W. Acton discusses ...
... course , things sometimes went wrong : having followed the social imperative into marriage , a woman might fail in the duties of her station . In The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs ( 1865 ) , W. Acton discusses ...
Contents
THE NATURE OF SOLITUDE | 5 |
Dimensions | 13 |
Loneliness Isolation Privacy Alienation | 29 |
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