Abstract / Description of output
This chapter explores how loneliness, alienation and solitude set their stamp on ‘quiet professionalism’ in a climate of neoliberalism. This theme is considered in the context of a higher education system that is increasingly associated with efficiency, effectiveness and ‘time-management’ rather than passion or vocation. Departing from the example of Greta Garbo, who famously declared that she wanted to be let alone, the authors explore how the notion of correspondence – with its echoes of response, responsibility and responsiveness – sheds new light on the state of being ‘alone together’ as conducive to the freedom to think. They explore attacks on subjectivity through a novel reading of the psychoanalytical notion of impingement. This is considered against the background of a form of alone/togetherness that arises in and through a quest for ethical forms of collaboration.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness |
Editors | Julian Stern, Christopher A. Sin, Malgorzata Wałejko, Ping Ho Wong |
Place of Publication | London |
Publisher | Bloomsbury |
Chapter | 15 |
Pages | 200-210 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781350162150, 9781350162174 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781350162136 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 16 Dec 2021 |