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Many articles and podcasts have seized upon the topic of loneliness, aloneness, and solitude since the 2023 Cambridge University Press publication of The Power of Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone, by psychologists and researchers Netta Weins…

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Diogenes of Sinope (404-323 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher, but accepted as such in a scurrilous and disparaging way by contemporary accounts, chiefly tby Diogenes Laertius, biographer of philosophers.

The first recorded hermit of ancient Greece was not Diogenes of Sinope but the philosopher Heraclitus (540-480 BCE).

The fiction works of Hesse are characterized by a protagonist who pursues a psychological and spiritual quest.

Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Autumnal Tints” was a literary breakthrough for the era, published posthumously in October, 1862 in the Atlantic Monthly.

Throughout history, eremitism and solitude have been circumscribed by culture and society.