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Le « je » de la solitude
The « I » of the Solitude

Author(s): Odette Barbero
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: isolation; exclusio;; recluse; fiction; condition; nature; God; unicity; subterfuge

Summary/Abstract: Solitude, whether inflicted or desired, is a polysemous notion admitting a plurality of meanings. Neither seclusion nor withdrawal, it is subjected to representations that determinate solitude in a conditional or purposeful manner. Such approaches placing it in a mediating position are so many counter-examples of its radical character. From nature solitude seems constitutive of any individual as of any subject

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 33-44
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: French