Living alone, living together two essays on the use of housing / Peter King, Department of Politics and Public Policy, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Author/creator King, Peter
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoUnited Kingdom : Emerald Group Publishing, [2017]
Descriptionvii, 128 pages ; 20 cm
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Contents Introduction -- On living alone -- On living together -- Alone and together.
Abstract "This book ... considers how a dwelling can protect and promote both our anxieties and our relationships. Dwelling magnifies our anxieties and allows us to reject the world, yet it is also what we need to form long and lasting relationships. The first essay considers the one truly private space we have: inside our heads. This is the most intimate place we have, yet we are singularly unable to control it or even to know it. This leads to a discussion on anxiety and depression and how the solitude offered by private space the head and the home allows for anxiety to take over an individual. But it is also suggested that it is only through the privacy of a dwelling, and the intimacies that can develop here, that anxiety can be assuaged. The second essay is based on the premise that our relationships come out of our private dwelling. We need the protected intimacy, the inclusion and exclusion of private dwelling in order to flourish and to grow, and if we are to live together in a fully committed manner we depend on this enclosed and excluding space. [The author] builds up a new picture of dwelling from first principles. Both essays use a non-traditional literature to explore being alone and being with others, rather than relying on the social science literature ..."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Issued in other formEbook version : 9781787431409
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017275391
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