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History of loneliness

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From the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, attitudes toward loneliness have changed many times: it has been seen as a source of bliss and self-knowledge, or as a dangerous pathology, and in recent decades, some countries have begun to speak with alarm of an "epidemic of loneliness. To understand the historical background of this social phenomenon, historian David Vincent offers a cultural and sociological perspective. What is solitude and how does it differ from seclusion? How did church and state institutions attempt to bring it under their control? What role did the secularization of society and urbanization play in shaping new understandings of solitude? The book introduces the history of many places and practices of voluntary and forced solitude - from monasteries to solitary confinement, from circumnavigating the globe alone to the enclosed "bubbles" into which smartphones and headphones immerse people today.....
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