{"product_id":"the-epicurean-month-lee-barnett-9798184089867","title":"The Epicurean Month: On Loneliness: The Philosophical Life Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost books about loneliness treat it as a headcount problem. Not enough people. Not enough invitations. Not enough social infrastructure. Add more contact, the genre suggests, and the loneliness will lift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpicurus had a different diagnosis. Loneliness is not the absence of people-it is the absence of being known. These are not the same problem, do not have the same causes, and cannot be addressed with the same solutions. A life full of contact can be profoundly lonely. A small garden with the right people can be the opposite of lonely. The difference is not quantity. It is depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Epicurean Month: On Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e is thirty days of philosophical inquiry into the specific ache of feeling unseen in a world that has never offered more contact and less genuine connection. Drawing on the insights of one of antiquity's most careful thinkers about human relationships, each day brings a single question and a short essay that uses Epicurean philosophy as a lens-not to explain it, but to see more clearly through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a self-help book. There are no tips, no conversation scripts, no frameworks for building your social network. What it offers is a genuinely different way of understanding what loneliness actually is, where it comes from, and what kind of response it actually requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver thirty days, readers examine the difference between contact and being known; what the platforms are and are not providing; why connection requires a kind of risk that contact does not; and what it would mean to build-deliberately, with the people already in your life-something like the community Epicurus described and sustained for the last three decades of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdeal for readers who have found the loneliness self-help genre too shallow and philosophy books too abstract, \u003ci\u003eThe Epicurean Month: On Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e occupies the space between them: intellectually serious, immediately personal, and written for the reader who suspects that the way they have been thinking about the problem may itself be part of the problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lee Barnett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798184089867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Lee Barnett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874782425343,"sku":"9798184089867","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-epicurean-month-lee-barnett-9798184089867","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}