Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of not Being Heard

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“Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens © 1954 by Wallace Stevens and copyright renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stauffer, Jill, 1966–

Ethical loneliness : the injustice of not being heard / Jill Stauffer.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-231-17150-2 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-53873-2 (e-book)

1. Loneliness—Philosophy. 2. Loneliness—Moral and ethical aspects. 3. Persecution. 4. Oppression (Psychology) I. Title.

B105.L65S73 2015

172’.1—dc23

2015001677

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