Loneliness Is a Warning Sign to Be Social

Re:Loneliness Is a Warning Sign to Be Social by pmoriarty on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:57AM (#12341700)

There's also Michel de Montaigne's essays from the 1500's On Solitude.[1]

More recently, there are books like The Lonely Crowd from the 1960's, [2] and Anthony Storr's Solitude, from the 1980's[3]

Of course, for thousands of years, spending time in solitude has been greatly valued for religious reasons, for "building character", for coming in touch with oneself, or for creative purposes. On the other hand, modern life, and more recently the media (even before social media) have been criticized for alienating people from themselves and from each other.

[1] - http://www.hermitary.com/solitude/montaigne.html

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Crowd-Changing-Character-Paper...

[3] - https://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Return-Self-Anthony-Storr/dp...

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Re:Loneliness Is a Warning Sign to Be Social by dredmorbius on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:14AM (#12341749)

Good refs.

I seem to recall a title "Solitude and the Self", though I can't find it via Worldcat. There's a similar one from the right timeframe: https://www.worldcat.org/title/solitude-a-return-to-the-self...

Arguably Chiksentmihilyi's work on Flow involves this too.

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