Beschreibung
explores voluntary otherness as a philosophy of life. This philosophy is asocial in the sense that its followers tend to privilege separateness over belonging, and yet it does not lead to alienation or isolation from society. Andrzej Wa?kiewicz sheds light on the experience of spiritual idealists.
Autorenportrait
Andrzej Wa?kiewicz teaches the history of social and political ideas at the University of Warsaw’s Institute of Sociology and the Collegium Artes Liberales (Poland). The Polish original of
was shortlisted for the Gdynia Literary Prize in 2009.
Inhalt
Contents: Interdisciplinarity – Practical philosophy – History of ideas – Ethics – Strangeness – Otherness – Individuality – Community – Society – Identity – Alienation – Idealism – Roman Stoic philosophy – Seneca – Marcus Aurelius – Early Christianity – Augustine of Hippo – Henry David Thoreau – Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Richard Feynman.
