Cloneliness

Michael O’Sullivan is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His recent publications include Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History (Bloomsbury, 2014), Academic Barbarism, Universities, and Inequality (2016), and The Humanities in Contemporary Chinese Contexts (2016). He is the founding editor of the journal Hong Kong Studies.

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Radical Embodied Cognitive Loneliness2. Loneliness as Method: Henry James and the “Essential Loneliness” of Artistic Practice 3. The “Lonely Voice” and “Submerged Population” in O’Connor, Joyce, and Mansfield: How Can We Live “Alone Together”? 4. Loneliness Is Part of the Job: “Sentimental Loneliness” in Carson McCullers and Richard Yates 5. Beating University Loneliness and Workplace Boredom: David Foster Wallace on "How to Keep Yourself Open to a Moment of the Most Supernal Beauty"6. Loneliness in a Selection of Japanese Philosophy and Fiction: Doi, Soseki, Nishida, Murakami, Murata [Section on Shintoism by Raphael Wung Cheong Chim]7. Filial Piety and Loneliness in a Selection of Chinese Novels: Cao Xueqin, Mo Yan, Dai Sijie, Ha Jin, Yiyun Li 8. “I Am Trash”: How Student Stress and Self-Stratification Is Creating a Generation of “Interconnected Loners” [with Flora Ka Yi Mak]9. An Erotics of LonelinessNotesBibliographyIndex

Michael O'Sullivan has quickly become a major voice in the defense of enlightened approaches to teaching. Cloneliness is a clear-sighted and wide-ranging response to contemporary forms of connected isolation. What is particularly inspiring about O'Sullivan's approach is the manner in which he links his analysis so profoundly to the needs of his students, and does so in truly global contexts.