Value of Solitude The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography

Name: Value of Solitude The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography
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ISBN: 9780813922898

ISBN-10: 0813922895

ISBN-13: 9780813922898

Edition: 2005

Authors: John D. Barbour

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Book details

Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 10/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

John D. Barbour is Professor of Religion and Boldt Distinguished Teaching Chair in the Humanities at St. Olaf College. He is the author of scholarly essays and four books, including Versions of Deconversion: Autobiography and the Loss of Faith (1994) and The Value of Solitude: The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography (2004).



Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Notes


Works Cited


Index