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Most people feel ambivalent about solitude, both loving and fearing it depending on how they experience being alone at certain points in their lives. In ""The Value of Solitude"", John Barbour explores some of the ways in which experiences of solitude, both positive and negative, have been interpreted as religiously significant.

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This is a powerful, comprehensive, and highly original book, impressive in terms of both its breadth of coverage and its depth of insight. It is a pleasure to read how vigorously the author speaks out for the moral and spiritual aspects of solitude in the age of a postmodern theory that allows little or no agency to a scattered and textually constituted subject. The Value of Solitude is a work of mature scholarship and probing critical reflection. - Eugene Stelzig, State University of New York at Geneseo, author of The Romantic Subject in Autobiography

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      Publisher: MP-VIR Uni of Virginia
      Publication Date: 10/31/2004 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813922898, 978-0813922898
      ISBN10: 0813922895
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      Literary studies: general Ethics and moral philosophy

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      Book Synopsis
      Most people feel ambivalent about solitude, both loving and fearing it depending on how they experience being alone at certain points in their lives. In ""The Value of Solitude"", John Barbour explores some of the ways in which experiences of solitude, both positive and negative, have been interpreted as religiously significant.

      Trade Review
      This is a powerful, comprehensive, and highly original book, impressive in terms of both its breadth of coverage and its depth of insight. It is a pleasure to read how vigorously the author speaks out for the moral and spiritual aspects of solitude in the age of a postmodern theory that allows little or no agency to a scattered and textually constituted subject. The Value of Solitude is a work of mature scholarship and probing critical reflection. - Eugene Stelzig, State University of New York at Geneseo, author of The Romantic Subject in Autobiography

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