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Daniel Schreiber - Alone (Reflections on Solitary Living) (2nd Hand Hardback)
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Synopsis
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, Alone explores how we want to live.
Translated by Ben Ferguson.
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- Format : Slightly Smaller 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
- Category : Non-Fiction - Health, Medicine, Psychology & Self-Help
- Published : 2023 (Reaktion Books)
- ISBN : 9781789147650
- SKU : B003260
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : Unknown (Unpriced)
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'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. This is a book for not just this year, but this era.’ - Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life.
'Alone is gorgeously, sensitively written and yet so explicit in its honesty and vulnerability. I connected with it deeply and personally - I truly loved it.’ - Jami Attenberg, author of All This Could Be Yours.
'This is a book to love and to cherish. Daniel Schreiber is such a skilled and engaging writer. Without sentimentality, he digs into the taboo subject of loneliness, the salvation of hiking, the many dimensions of friendship, the value of kindness, the pleasures of solitude. You will meet Nietzsche, Sappho, Arendt - and perhaps you will meet yourself, thinking about new ways to live.' - Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of Living and August Blue.
'An intelligent, moving, and heartfelt meditation on the mixed joys and sorrows of solitude. Schreiber's prose is gorgeous, practically silken, and he wears his erudition so lightly that he is the best possible guide on this journey to the elegant lunar landscape of aloneness.' -Lauren Groff, author.
'Daniel Schreiber has written a brave and searching vindication of single life. He creates in these pages a moving conversation about the sources of value in our lives. This book is a document of liberation.' - Garth Greenwell, author.
'Loved this book. Insightful, deep, self aware and vulnerable. Concise and profound without unnecessary waffle to pad out the book.' - Amazon Review.
The Author
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 German-language literary essays Nüchtern (2014) and Zuhause (2017). He lives in Berlin.