The Odyssey Experience: Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys
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Word Count
71,500 words, Guess
Page Count
286 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveodysseyexperienc0000smel
- ISBN-100520258975
- ISBN-139780520258976
- Library of Congress Control Number2008040509
- OCLC Control Number261204369
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780520258976
- Open LibraryOL26797779M
Classifications
- LCCBF449.5.S64 2009
- LCCBF449.5 .S64 2009
Description
"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."--Jacket.
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