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Living With Loneliness

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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The Politics of Loneliness

When i realized that i couldn't do that, that i had to stand face to face with my loneliness and accept loneliness as a comrade that would accompany me through life, then it was liberating. Then i felt my ef free to go out into the world as myself and explore and be curious. You said that the other reason that you're so interested in loneliness as a subject of intellectual inquiry is the politics. Oh, yes. I think we tend not to think if loneliness really in a political dimension to it. So where do politics come in? Wasn't hannah arant's work on titolitarianism an inspiration for this book? She knew what a totalitarian government could do

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