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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
CA :
University of California Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (287 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-248) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520943421 0520943422 0520258975 9780520258976 1282772546 9781282772540 9786612772542 6612772549 |