Friendship as Sacred Knowing - Overcoming Isolation

Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation

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English | 26 Jun. 2014 | ISBN: 0199363986 | 240 Pages | PDF | 1.33 MB
We are haunted, Samuel Kimbriel suggests, by a habit of isolation buried, often imperceptibly, within our practices of understanding and relating to the world. In Friendship as Sacred Knowing, Kimbriel works through the complexities of this disposition to contest its place within contemporary philosophical thought and practice.
Stories of isolation amidst the fragmentation of community are familiar in this age, as are tales of alienation provoked by the insistent indifference of the scientific cosmos. This book goes beyond such stories, arguing that the crisis of loneliness in the present age is deeper yet, betokening a more fundamental incoherence within the modern personality itself.