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A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses
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(Buch) |
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| Lieferstatus: |
 Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt) |
| Veröffentlichung: |
Juni 2010
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| Genre: |
Philosophie |
| ISBN: |
9781582435916 |
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EAN-Code:
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9781582435916 |
| Verlag: |
Catapult |
| Einband: |
Kartoniert |
| Sprache: |
English
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| Dimensionen: |
H 215 mm / B 141 mm / D 25 mm |
| Gewicht: |
315 gr |
| Seiten: |
304 |
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| Inhalt: |
| From Lao-tse and the Buddha, St. Anthony and the early Celtic hermits, through Rousseau, Thoreau, Ruskin, and up to the present day, certain gifted persons have shown a vocation for living alone and apart, finding in simplicity and attention to nature a spiritual space to be explored and rejoiced in. Others, retreating from the world in scorn or cut off from it by scandal, have found that solitude is Hell, a pit of melancholy and morbid fancy. In this, her first work of nonfiction, novelist Isabel Colegate gives us the lives of the solitaries -- male and female, medieval and modern, divinely inspired and patently fraudulent. But this is no mere gallery of saints and sinners, poets and misanthropes. It is also a reevaluation of solitude for our times, and a reminder that it is in solitude that the soul meets itself, refreshes itself, and from there goes out to join the communal dance. |
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