Loneliness in World History

by Katie Barclay

This book takes a thematic approach to questions of how to define emotion and loneliness, breaking down loneliness into a range of different dimensions - estrangement, longing, homesickness, isolation - and considers how these phenomena appear across a range of global contexts.

Loneliness is a topic of current concern, a downside of the anomie of the modern condition. Yet, emotions and experiences that share some of the features of loneliness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032329726
• ISBN13: 9781032329727
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 148 Pages