![]() ![]() I believed that the Scandinavian countries had higher degrees of loneliness, and that these numbers were increasing. I also believed that loneliness, despite being a subjective phenomenon, could be better understood in the context of social surroundings than individual disposition. ![]() I thought social media generated more loneliness by displacing ordinary sociability. I assumed that the significant increase in the number of single dwellers would notably impact the number of lonely individuals. I thought more men than women were lonely, and that lonely people were more isolated than others. ![]() He begins, for instance, with a caveat that’s worth quoting in full since it helps to explain why what follows is nothing close to a coherent “philosophy” of loneliness, at least in the more prosaic sense of the word, to wit, a systematic theory.Īlmost all I thought I knew about loneliness proved false. In some ways A Philosophy of Loneliness is a bit of a departure from Svendsen’s other monographs. ![]() Indeed, each book might easily make a chapter in a lengthier study of the early 21st Century. Future historians will be able to glean much about the zeitgeist of the new millennium simply by perusing some of the titles of Norwegian philosopher Lars Svendsen’s books: A Philosophy of Evil, A Philosophy of Fear, A Philosophy of Boredom, and his latest to be translated into English, A Philosophy of Loneliness. ![]()
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