Home: The Foundations of Belonging

by Paul O'Connor

Book Overview

This book offers an anthropological and historical perspective on home. Beginning with a vision of modernity as characterised by both spiralling liminality and an ongoing quest for belonging, it plumbs the roots of western civilisation and assembles a wide body of comparative evidence to illuminate the foundations of a sense of home. Home is theorised as a stable centre around which we organise routines and perspectives on reality, bringing order...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138633143
• ISBN13: 9781138633148
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"