The Value Of Solitude: The Ethics And Spirituality Of Aloneness In Autobiography
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (786 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813922895 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Helpful and non-fluffy. Wished that I'd had it for my Dissertation on Solitude." according to M. McDonald. So many books on solitude and related topics are "fluffy"—this one's more searching and serious. Good index is also very helpful.Would definitely like to have had it for my dissertation: "A portrait of the role and value of solitude for educational leaders, 2005.". Five Stars David S. Arnold fine
Barbour, Professor of Religion at St. John D. Olaf College, is the author of Versions of Deconversion: Autobiography and the Loss of Faith.
Most people feel ambivalent about solitude, both loving and fearing it depending on how they experience being alone at certain points in their lives. For many authors, the process of writing an autobiography is itself conceived of as a form of solitude, a detachment from others in order to discover or create a new sense of personal identity. Solitude helps these authors to reorient their lives according to their moral ideals and spiritual aspirations.The Value of Solitude both traces the persistence and vitality of the theme of solitude
The Value of Solitude is a work of mature scholarship and probing critical reflection. (Eugene Stelzig, State University of New York at Geneseo, author of The Romantic Subject in Autobiography) . It is a pleasure to read how vigorously the author speaks out for the moral and spiritual aspects of solitude in the age of a postmodern theory that allows little or no agency to a scattered and textually constituted subject. This is a powerful, comprehensive, and highly original book, impressive in terms of both its breadth of coverage and its depth of insight