With more people living alone today than at any time in U.S. history, Ferguson investigates loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. Ferg…
With more people living alone today than at any time in U.S. history, Ferguson investigates loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. Ferg…
Ethical Lonliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being heard. It is the result of multiple lapses on the part of human beings and political institutions that, in failing to listen well to survivors, deny them redress by …
Das Gitter ist geschlossen, doch der Elefant ist verschwunden, zur Bestürzung der ganzen Stadt. Nur einer ahnt, was passiert ist. Ein junger, einsamer Mann, der in der Werbeabteilung eines Küchenherstellers arbeitet und einer Journalistin seine Wahrnehmungen mitteilt. - Ein näch…
An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls non-space results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we percei…
