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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of California Pr
Publication date
March 5, 2009
Pages
272
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780520258976
ISBN-10
0520258975
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.75 by 7.75 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Original list price
$85.00
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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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 topics as part of a larger, overarching phenomenon, Smelser transforms their study from the particular to the comparative. The Odyssey Experience thus reaches beyond a simple description of where and how transformations occur in daily life to offer a profound explanation for why they are there.
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Hardcover
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from Univ of California Pr (March 5, 2009)
9780520258976 | details & prices | 272 pages | 5.75 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $85.00
About: This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives.
About: This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives.
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