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The Odyssey Experience : Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys.

This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity. The odyssey...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smelser, Neil J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: CA : University of California Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity. The odyssey experience, as Smelser advances it, is generic, widespread, and recurring. It is a finite period of disengagement from the routines of life and immersion into a simpler, transitory, often collective, usually intense period of involvement that culminates in some kind of regeneration. By examining a variety of.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (287 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-248) and index.
ISBN:9780520943421
0520943422
0520258975
9780520258976
1282772546
9781282772540
9786612772542
6612772549