Lonely Places and Lonely People

IF 1.3 2区哲学 N/A PHILOSOPHY TOPOI-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI:10.1007/s11245-023-09931-4

Matthew Ratcliffe

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Abstract

Abstract Feeling lonely, being a lonely person, and living through lonely times can all be construed in terms of the emotional experiences of individuals. However, we also speak of lonely places. Sometimes, a place strikes us as lonely even when we do not feel lonely ourselves. On other occasions, finding a place lonely also involves feeling lonely, isolated, and lost. In this paper, I reflect on the phenomenological structure of loneliness by addressing what it is to experience a place as lonely. I suggest that approaching loneliness in this way can help us to see how it involves not merely the lack or absence of something but, more specifically, the sense of being unable to access social and personal possibilities that may still appear accessible to others.

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孤独的地方和孤独的人

感到孤独，成为一个孤独的人，经历孤独的时代，都可以用个人的情感体验来解释。然而，我们也谈论孤独的地方。有时候，一个地方让我们感到孤独，即使我们自己并不感到孤独。在其他情况下，寻找一个孤独的地方也意味着感到孤独、孤立和迷失。在这篇论文中，我通过解决什么是体验孤独的地方来反思孤独的现象学结构。我认为，以这种方式接近孤独可以帮助我们看到，它不仅仅涉及缺乏或缺少某些东西，更具体地说，是一种无法接近社会和个人可能性的感觉，而这些可能性对其他人来说似乎仍然是可以接近的。

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