The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point - Hardcover

Slater, Philip Elliot

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807041807 ISBN 13: 9780807041802

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1970

Synopsis

In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society-violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national 'addiction' to technology.

About this title

About the Author:

Philip Slater lives in Santa Cruz, California. 
Todd Gitlin is professor of sociology at the University of California/Berkeley.

Review:

"The Pursuit of Loneliness is still worth reading because it honors the mission of sociology not to train a caste of knowers but to contribute to society's knowledge of itself." – from the introduction by Todd Gitlin

"If I had to select a single book by which to tell a stranger what life in this country has become and why, it would be this one." – Edgar Z. Friedenberg in The New York Review of Books

"A brilliant, sweeping and revelant critique ... An insightful, well-written, and thought-provoking book that illumines each of the many aspects of American culture that it touches." –  Kenneth Keniston in The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0807041807
• ISBN 13: 9780807041802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 154