BOOK

The philosophy of creative solitudes

Jones, David, editor

2019

Overview

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 is the enabling (and disabling) condition that allows us to seriously question how to live creatively and meaningfully. David Farrell Krell is the decisive living philosophical voice on how philosophers can creatively engage with 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 in the English-speaking world. Each author address the problem of solitude from a different angle, and imagines how to face it and respond creatively. Blending philosophical narrative and straightforward philosophical treatises, this book provides the inspiration for how to contemplate our own versions of solitude and its creative potentials. Some focus on past philosophers or poets, such as Heidegger and Hölderlin, while others deal more directly with Krell's work as being an exemplar of their own imaginings of creative solitudes. Other authors respond personally and creatively in their demonstrations of how we can, and must, seek our solitudes.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Subject: Solitude Philosophy. / Creative ability.
• ISBN: 9781350077850, 1350077852

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
BJ1499.S65 P45 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE