Solitude : Apocryphal Posts from Distant Archives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kadir, Djelal.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2025.

Summary:

What is solitude? How does it manifest itself? How is solitude related to writing and reading? How do the core values of ethics, politics, religion, and aesthetics manifest themselves in the face of solitude, whether in mythological time, in history, or in our own era of telecommunications and instant connectivity? This volume explores these questions and, by way of demonstration, dramatizes critical predicaments of solitude through thirty-nine letters. The letters in this collection, ranging from mythological and epic antiquity through the twentieth century, are based on thorough scholarly research and written through the voices of mythical, literary, religious, scientific, and historical figures as the archival and documentary record allows us to understand them in their respective crises of extreme solitude. The letters aim to capture the perennial attempts to deal with the paradoxes of solitude as timeless, universal human condition, a condition most common, yet one that must be experienced alone. Each letter is introduced with an explanatory context--philological in the case of mythological figures, and historical when writers from the annals of history are purported to be writing. This unusual and distinctive meditation on the pervasive phenomenon of solitude will resonate productively in the study of philosophy, literature, history, and the arts and humanities in general, as well as with readers who have considered or experienced solitude.

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ISBN:

1-83711-377-7