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Georgetown University-Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, 2019
Marshalling the intellectual and practical history and contemporary thought concerning notions of... more Marshalling the intellectual and practical history and contemporary thought concerning notions of rurality, place, and wilderness, I propose that the place-experience of inhabited solitude is an experience with the non-human I, the Other, encountered in wild nature, and one that is privileged in the sense that it is an encounter that differs from aesthetic experiences with nature, wilderness, and the so-called ‘outdoors. The place-experience of inhabited solitude is an encounter most commonly experienced by those who inhabit the non-agri-rural, but also one that can occur if an individual, regardless of geographic living circumstances, spends prolonged time in places of inhabited solitude. I will present evidence of the lure inhabited solitude and, in particular, the importance of forests and mountains to this notion. Employing a lens of twentiethcentury continental philosophical thought including phenomenology and existentialism, I will argue that certain themes in these traditions...
Georgetown University-Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, 2019
Marshalling the intellectual and practical history and contemporary thought concerning notions of... more Marshalling the intellectual and practical history and contemporary thought concerning notions of rurality, place, and wilderness, I propose that the place-experience of inhabited solitude is an experience with the non-human I, the Other, encountered in wild nature, and one that is privileged in the sense that it is an encounter that differs from aesthetic experiences with nature, wilderness, and the so-called ‘outdoors. The place-experience of inhabited solitude is an encounter most commonly experienced by those who inhabit the non-agri-rural, but also one that can occur if an individual, regardless of geographic living circumstances, spends prolonged time in places of inhabited solitude. I will present evidence of the lure inhabited solitude and, in particular, the importance of forests and mountains to this notion. Employing a lens of twentiethcentury continental philosophical thought including phenomenology and existentialism, I will argue that certain themes in these traditions...