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Strangers by Choice : An Asocial Philosophy of Life.- Translated by Tul'si Bhambry and Agnieszka Wa?kiewicz. Editorial work by Tul'si Bhambry. - Andrzej Waskiewicz

Strangers by Choice

An Asocial Philosophy of Life.- Translated by Tul'si Bhambry and Agnieszka Wa?kiewicz. Editorial work by Tul'si Bhambry.

By: Andrzej Waskiewicz

eBook | 28 January 2015 | Edition Number 1

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Strangers by Choice explores voluntary otherness as a philosophy of life. This philosophy is asocial in the sense that its followers tend to privilege separateness over belonging, and yet it does not lead to alienation or isolation from society. Building on Simmel's notion of the stranger, the author sheds light on the experience of spiritual idealists, both real and fictional, who maintain a distance from mainstream society in order to live by the laws of their transcendental homelands. Wa?kiewicz addresses representations of strangeness from a broad spectrum of Western culture, including Stoic philosophy, Augustine of Hippo, Henry David Thoreau, the physicist Richard Feynman, and finally Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Highlighting how these writers and thinkers have negotiated individuality and community, this interdisciplinary study contributes to debates on identity in both practical philosophy and the history of ideas.

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