How to be alone
Maitland, Sara, 1950-2014
Book
Sara Maitland asks how we have arrived in a culture that values individualism, personal autonomy, independence and fulfilment higher than ever before in human history but at the same time is terrified of solitude. Delving into history to answer this question, she examines our changing culture through the ages and asks why and how we have periodically praised and then feared the practice of being alone, and those who seek it.
Main title:
How to be alone / Sara Maitland.
Author:
Maitland, Sara, 1950-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2014.London : Macmillan, 2014.
Collation:
162 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780230768086 (pbk)
Dewey class:
155.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1237410