- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Part I Outside
- Outside
- The Weight of Reality
- Doubles
- Shadows
- Part II Chance
- Cause, Choice, Chance
- Part III Passions
- The Altiplano
- Return of the First Person Singular
- Aconcagua
- Seduction
- Truthfulness
- Part IV Belief
- The Stone Axe
- Angels with Guns
- Belief
- Performance
- Voyage
- Part V Justice
- The Future of Torture
- Justice
- The System
- Truth in Reconciliation
- Part VI Irrevocable
- The Babies in Trees
- Mortality
- Dignity
- Irrevocable Loss
- Part VII Gratitude
- Gratitude
- Appendix Philosophy’s Tasks
- Notes
- About the Photographs
- Acknowledgments
The Altiplano
The Altiplano
- Chapter:
- (p.45) The Altiplano
- Source:
- Irrevocable
- Author(s):
Alphonso Lingis
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
The trip across the Altiplano in the Bolivian Andes was a crossing into isolation and solitude. Today we little understand people who sought solitude. The writings of the third century CE Desert Fathers and the 18th romantics provide two different experiences of solitude. In the silver city of Potosi, noblewomen withdrew into solitude and silence in a convent of Discalced Carmelite nuns. In an abandoned village, one man stays behind, keeping a museum of the remains of the village and creating a rock garden that makes him an “outsider artist.”
Keywords: solitude, romantics, Desert Fathers, Potosi, Discalced Carmelites, outsider art
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Part I Outside
- Outside
- The Weight of Reality
- Doubles
- Shadows
- Part II Chance
- Cause, Choice, Chance
- Part III Passions
- The Altiplano
- Return of the First Person Singular
- Aconcagua
- Seduction
- Truthfulness
- Part IV Belief
- The Stone Axe
- Angels with Guns
- Belief
- Performance
- Voyage
- Part V Justice
- The Future of Torture
- Justice
- The System
- Truth in Reconciliation
- Part VI Irrevocable
- The Babies in Trees
- Mortality
- Dignity
- Irrevocable Loss
- Part VII Gratitude
- Gratitude
- Appendix Philosophy’s Tasks
- Notes
- About the Photographs
- Acknowledgments