Eric Klinenberg

Going Solo

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In 1950, only 22% of adults were single. Today, more than 50% of adults are. Eric Klinenberg explores the dramatic rise of solo living, and the seismic impact it's having on our culture, business and politics. Though conventional wisdom tells us that living by oneself leads to loneliness and isolation, most 'solo dwellers', compared with their married counterparts, are more likely to eat out and exercise, sign up for art and music classes, attend public events and lectures, and volunteer. Drawing on over three hundred in-depth interviews with men and women of all ages and every class, Klinenberg reaches some startling conclusions. With eye-opening statistics, original data and vivid portraits of people who go it alone, Going Solo upends common preconceptions to provide the definitive take on the rise of this major trend and how it is transforming modern society.
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  • Юлияhas quoted8 years ago
    We fell in love once, and it didn’t work. We fell in love twice, and it didn’t work. Once that happened, you had experience. And once you had experience, the whole myth of romantic love as salvation came to an end.”
  • Maxhas quoted5 years ago
    Edward Gibbon: “‘Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius; and the uniformity of a work denotes the hand of a single artist.’”
  • Maxhas quoted5 years ago
    It’s in Genesis, when God, concerned about the potential power of a unified human community, “confounds” the language shared among residents in the Tower of Babel, leaving them unable to communicate or understand each other. It’s in Plato’s Symposium, when Aristophanes explains that Zeus, who also feared the power of a united human species, split us in half. Before then, the story goes, every person had four arms, four legs, and a two-sided face, with integrated male and female qualities. Now each of us is an incomplete individual, condemned to feel alone unless we find the companion who makes us whole.

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