The value of solitude the ethics and spirituality of aloneness in autobiography

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Barbour, John D. (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press 2004.
Colección:Studies in religion and culture
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Christian solitude
  • Bounded solitude in Augustine's Confessions
  • The humanist tradition : Petrarch, Montaigne, and Gibbon
  • Rousseau's myth of solitude in reveries of the solitary walker
  • Thoreau at Walden : soliloquizing and talking to all the universe at the same time
  • Twentieth-century varieties of solitary experience
  • Thomas Merton and solitude : the door to solitude opens only from the inside
  • Solitude, writing, and fathers in Paul Auster's The invention of solitude
  • Conclusion: The value of solitude.