{"id":11064,"date":"2020-05-19T23:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T22:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=11064"},"modified":"2020-08-13T17:16:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:16:38","slug":"from-the-vaults-being-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/from-the-vaults-being-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"From the vaults: Being Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>John Burnside\/ Barbara Taylor\/ James Warren<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to the recording <a href=\"https:\/\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20180124_beingAlone.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1N23rVhjFVY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Hell is other people\u2019, noted Jean Paul Sartre\u2014rather rudely, it might seem to an outside observer. But is the pursuit of philosophical understanding an inherently solitary pursuit by its nature? From Augustine to Kant, philosophy has cherished the image of the deep thinker immersed in solitudinous reflection. But how does solitude differ from loneliness? And in an age of increasing social atomization, can we think about our lonely condition in ways that might allow us to overcome it? We explore the idea of loneliness as an aesthetic and socio-political phenomena, as well as an existential question.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Burnside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Burnside<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor in Creative Writing, St Andrews University; Poet and novelist, winner of both the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qmul.ac.uk\/history\/our-staff\/academic-staff\/profiles\/taylorbarbara.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barbara Taylor<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor of Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.classics.cam.ac.uk\/directory\/james-warren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Warren<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/shahidha-bari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shahidha Bari<\/a><br \/>\nSenior Lecturer in Romanticism, Queen Mary, University of London &amp; Fellow, Forum for Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on 24 January 2018 at the LSE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, John Burnside, Barbara Taylor, and James Warren explore the idea of loneliness and solitude, in philosophy, art and politics, as well as in our own lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109,165],"tags":[],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-11064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-from-the-vaults"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/05\/7-lawki.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-2Ss","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11064"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13738,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions\/13738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11064"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}