"What does it mean to be lonely?" Thomas Dumm asks.
His book shows how Loneliness shapes the contemporary division betwe.
Through reflections on philosophy, political theory, literature, and tragic drama, he proceeds to illuminate a hidden dimension of the human condition.
The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self.
His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. "What does it mean to be lonely?" Thomas Dumm asks