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The Correlates of Loneliness by Ami Rokach is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Correlates of Loneliness about?

“What does it mean to be lonely?” Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self. Through reflections on philosophy, political theory, literature, and tragic drama, he proceeds to illuminate a hidden dimension of the human condition. His book shows how loneliness shapes the contemporary division between public and private, our inability to live with each other honestly and in comity, the estranged forms that our intimate relationships assume, and the weakness of our common bonds.A reading of the relationship between Cordelia and her father in Shakespeare’s <I>King Lear</I> points to the most basic dynamic of modern loneliness—how it is a response to the problem of the “missing mother.” Dumm goes on to explore the most important dimensions of lonely experience—Being, Having, Loving, and Grieving. As the book unfolds, he juxtaposes new interpretations of iconic cultural texts—<I>Moby-Dick</I>, <I>Death of a Salesman</I>, the film <I>Paris</I>, <I>Texas</I>, Emerson’s “Experience,” to name a f

Who reads The Correlates of Loneliness?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Ami Rokach
Publisher
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9781137318527
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, Self Help, Psychology

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