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"What is solitude, why do we crave and fear it, and how do we distinguish it properly from loneliness? It lies at the core of the lives of philosophers and their self-reflective contemplations, and it is the enabling (and disabling) condition that allows us to seriously question how to live creatively and meaningfully. David Farrell Krell is one of the decisive philosophical voices on how philosophers can creatively engage their solitudes. The scale and range of his understanding of solitudes are taken up in this book by some of the most distinguished Continental philosophers. Authors address the problem of solitude from different angles, and imagine how to face and respond creatively to it. Blending philosophical narrative and straightforward philosophical treatises, this book provides inspiration for contemplation of our own versions of solitude and their creative potentials. Some authors focus on the work of historical figures in philosophy or poetry, such as Heidegger and Hölderlin, while others deal more directly with Krell's work as exemplary of their own imaginings of creative solitudes. Other authors respond more personally and creatively in their demonstrations of how we can, and must, seek our solitudes. Including an original chapter by David Farrell Krell, this book is an invigorating meditation on the possibility of being philosophical about a life through solitude, and the meaning of this powerfully resonant and universal human experience."--Bloomsbury Publishing INTRODUCTION -- David Jones, Kennesaw State University, USA -- You Lonely Farang: Hiatus in Inducing an Introduction -- Part 1: CREATIVE SOLITUDES Chapter 1: David Farrell Krell, DePaul University and Brown University, USA/Germany -- Creative Solitudes Part 2: IMAGINING SOLITUDE Chapter 2: Walter Brogan, Villanova University, USA -- David Farrell Krell: The Impossible Voicing of Philosophy's Double -- Chapter 3: Angelica Nuzzo, Brooklyn College, USA -- A Creativity to Sustain, A Solitude to Endure -- Chapter 4: Charles Scott, Pennsylvania State University, USA -- Solitude, Creativity, Delinquency Chapter 5: Alfonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University, USA -- Reticence, Solitude -- Chapter 6: Peg Birmingham, DePaul University, USA -- "An Incarnation Openly Bearing Its Emptiness" -- Life, Animal, Fiction, and Solitude in the Work of David Farrell Krell -- Chapter 7: William McNeill, DePaul University, USA -- An Enigmatic Solitude -- Part 2: IMAGINING KRELL'S SOLITUDES Chapter 8: John Sallis, Boston College, USA -- Sounion -- Chapter 9: Michael Naas, DePaul University, USA -- Withdrawal Symptoms: -- David Farrell Krell and the Solitude of a Body Born of Chaos -- Chapter 10: Françoise Dastur, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France -- Hölderlin's Solitude -- Chapter 11: Jason M. Wirth, Seattle University, USA -- Solitude and Other Crowds -- -- Part 3: SOLITUDES Chapter 12: David Wood, Vanderbilt University, USA -- Off the Beaten Track -- Chapter 13: Jill Marsden, University of Bolton, UK -- Landscapes of Solitude: Some Reflections on the Free Spirit -- Chapter 14: Dawne McCance, University of Manitoba, Canada -- Cabin Solitudes -- Chapter 15: H. Peter Steeves, DePaul University, USA -- The Abandonment of the Circus Horses.
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