Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781350162136
Description: "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness is the first major account integrating research on solitude, silence and loneliness from across academic disciplines and across the lifespan. The editors explore how being alone - in its different forms, positive and negative, as solitude, silence and loneliness - is learned and developed, and how it is experienced in childhood and youth, adulthood and old age. Philosophical, psychological, historical, cultural and religious issues are addressed by distinguished scholars from Europe, North America and Asia"--