Alone :Reflections on Solitary Living

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Alone

Alone :Reflections on Solitary Living

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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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781789147650
ISBN10 1789147654
Number Of Pages 152
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Reaktion Books
Format hardback
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'The most moving, memorable books are the ones that attempt to answer questions that the author has been struggling with for his entire life. In Alone, Daniel Schreiber - a beautiful writer and, just as important, a beautiful thinker - explores the questions of not just his life, but our age: Who am I if no one loves me? What are the limits of friendship? How does one live with deep and profound loneliness? This is a book for not just this year, but for this era.' - Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life

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Author's Bio

Daniel Schreiber is the author of Susan Sontag, the first complete biography of the intellectual icon (2014, translated by David Dollenmayer), as well as the highly praised and bestselling literary essays Nüchtern (2014) and Zuhause (2017). He lives in Berlin.

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