Solitary Action: Acting on Our Own in Everyday Life

by Ira J. Cohen

Book Overview

From a private nature walk to an engrossing novel, humans spend a vast amount of time engaged in solitary activities. However, despite the fact that individual activities are a prevalent part of everyday life, most scholarly research has been devoted to social interaction rather than solitary action.

Ira Cohen's Solitary Action fills this intellectual void, identifying and discussing four basic forms of individual action: peripatetics, engrossments,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190258578
• ISBN13: 9780190258573
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"