UID:
almahu_9949203656002882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 246 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. Available via World Wide Web.
Edition:
Access limited by licensing agreement.
ISBN:
9781350077881
Content:
"What is solitude, why do we crave and fear it, and how do we distinguish it properly from loneliness? It lies at the core of the lives of philosophers and their self-reflective contemplations, and it is the enabling (and disabling) condition that allows us to seriously question how to live creatively and meaningfully. David Farrell Krell is one of the decisive philosophical voices on how philosophers can creatively engage their solitudes. The scale and range of his understanding of solitudes are taken up in this book by some of the most distinguished Continental philosophers. Authors address the problem of solitude from different angles, and imagine how to face and respond creatively to it. Blending philosophical narrative and straightforward philosophical treatises, this book provides inspiration for contemplation of our own versions of solitude and their creative potentials. Some authors focus on the work of historical figures in philosophy or poetry, such as Heidegger and Hölderlin, while others deal more directly with Krell's work as exemplary of their own imaginings of creative solitudes. Other authors respond more personally and creatively in their demonstrations of how we can, and must, seek our solitudes. Including an original chapter by David Farrell Krell, this book is an invigorating meditation on the possibility of being philosophical about a life through solitude, and the meaning of this powerfully resonant and universal human experience."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Note:
Introduction ; You Lonely Farang: Hiatus in Inducing an Introduction -- Part 1. Creative Solitudes. Chapter 1. Creative Solitudes / David Farrell Krell -- Part 2. Imagining Solitude. Chapter 2. David Farrell Krell: The Impossible Voicing of Philosophy's Double / Walter Brogan ; Chapter 3. A Creativity to Sustain, A Solitude to Endure / Angelica Nuzzo ; Chapter 4. Solitude, Creativity, Delinquency / Charles E. Scott ; Chapter 5. Reticence, Solitude / Alphonso Lingis ; Chapter 6. "An Incarnation Openly Bearing Its Emptiness": Life, Animal, Fiction, and Solitude in the Work of David Farrell Krell / Peg Birmingham ; Chapter 7. An Enigmatic Solitude / William McNeill ; Chapter 8. Solitude and Other Crowds / Jason M. Wirth -- Part 3. Imagining Krell's Solitudes. Chapter 9. Sounion / John Sallis ; Chapter 10. Withdrawal Symptoms: David Farrell Krell and the Solitude of a Body Born of Chaos / Michael Naas ; Chapter 11. Hölderlin's Solitude / Françoise Dastur -- Part 4. Solitudes. Chapter 12. Off the Beaten Track / David Wood ; Chapter 13. Landscapes of Solitude: Some Reflections on the Free Spirit / Jill Marsden ; Chapter 14. Cabin Solitudes / Dawne McCance ; Chapter 15. The Abandonment of the Circus Horses / H. Peter Steeves -- Subject Index -- Author Index.
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Also issued in print.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.5040/9781350077881
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350077881?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
