El cielo vacío

Marjan Bouwmeester shows that loneliness is part of being human and sheds light on the ways in which this feeling can surface throughout our lives. The word "loneliness" is on everyone's lips. While policymakers take steps to "combat" the isolation of the elderly and young gamers, the concept does not receive the deep exploration it deserves. In The Empty Sky, the philosopher Marjan Bouwmeester deals with precisely this. Thus, she presents loneliness as the feeling of sadness that we suffer when we experience a lack of connection. However, loneliness also brings out important human talents, because, after all, when you feel lonely, you suffer from the absence of something and you have to work hard to overcome the suffering or to repair the loss. Ella bouwmeester walks us through the lines of great thinkers like Blaise Pascal, Daniel Dennett, and Simone de Beauvoir, and complements her reflections on the human condition with references to famous novels, movies, and songs. She with great precision, she establishes surprising links between loneliness, stage fright, masks, selfies, space travel and women's bathrooms. And she does it with David Bowie as a star guide who knows perfectly how to act in the face of an inevitable loss.