Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living by Schreiber, Daniel

Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789147650)

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Format: Hardcover
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Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living by Schreiber, Daniel

Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living

$22.50
Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living by Schreiber, Daniel

Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living

$22.50
Format: Hardcover
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A book for our times: 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--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.

Author: Daniel Schreiber
ISBN-10: 1789147654
ISBN-13: 9781789147650
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2023
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.88h x 5.85w x 0.69d
By Daniel Schreiber
By Daniel Schreiber
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Daniel Schreiber is the author of Susan Sontag, the first complete biography of the intellectual icon, as well as the highly praised and bestselling German-language literary essays Nüchtern and Zuhause. He lives in Berlin. Ben Fergusson is an award-winning writer and translator. He is the author of Tales from the Fatherland and An Honest Man.

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