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The Book of Hermits
A History of Hermits from Antiquity to the Present
Taschenbuch von Robert Rodriguez
Sprache: Englisch

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Hermits have thrived in every major historical era, geography, culture, and society - from antiquity to the present, East and West, in deserts, forests,
and mountains, depicted in art, literature, and lore.
What are their motives?
Religious, spiritual, philosophical? Ethical, aesthetic, psychological? From a love of wilderness to a desire for the anonymity of life as a "hermit in the city." From an inkling about the universe to a desire for radical simplicity. The historical hermits have reflected all of these.
As Kahlil Gibran put it, "A hermit renounces the world of fragments to enjoy the world wholly, without interruption." Hermits want, as Thoreau proposed of himself, to "live deliberately."
Within these pages, all these motives are explored, all the hermits considered: poets, sages, teachers, philosophers, the eccentric, pious, irreverent, sociable, reclusive, and wise - men and women. Hermits from India, China, Japan, and South Asia, huts, cells, and cabins, from the Middle East to Europe to the United States. The waning of hermits shifted the modern Western world to solitude. But the persistence of hermits, even today, is universal.
Hermits have thrived in every major historical era, geography, culture, and society - from antiquity to the present, East and West, in deserts, forests,
and mountains, depicted in art, literature, and lore.
What are their motives?
Religious, spiritual, philosophical? Ethical, aesthetic, psychological? From a love of wilderness to a desire for the anonymity of life as a "hermit in the city." From an inkling about the universe to a desire for radical simplicity. The historical hermits have reflected all of these.
As Kahlil Gibran put it, "A hermit renounces the world of fragments to enjoy the world wholly, without interruption." Hermits want, as Thoreau proposed of himself, to "live deliberately."
Within these pages, all these motives are explored, all the hermits considered: poets, sages, teachers, philosophers, the eccentric, pious, irreverent, sociable, reclusive, and wise - men and women. Hermits from India, China, Japan, and South Asia, huts, cells, and cabins, from the Middle East to Europe to the United States. The waning of hermits shifted the modern Western world to solitude. But the persistence of hermits, even today, is universal.
Über den Autor
Robert Rodriguez spent forty years as a librarian in university, college and public libraries. He is the founder of the Hermitary website ([...]) and editor since its 2002 inception.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: Altertum
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781736866504
ISBN-10: 1736866508
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rodriguez, Robert
Hersteller: Hermitary Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Robert Rodriguez
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,606 kg
Artikel-ID: 123681169
Über den Autor
Robert Rodriguez spent forty years as a librarian in university, college and public libraries. He is the founder of the Hermitary website ([...]) and editor since its 2002 inception.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: Altertum
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781736866504
ISBN-10: 1736866508
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rodriguez, Robert
Hersteller: Hermitary Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Robert Rodriguez
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,606 kg
Artikel-ID: 123681169
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