The value of solitude : the ethics and spirituality of aloneness in autobiography /
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| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
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Table of Contents:
- 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.