Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
Sweet Nothing
An Elemental Case for Taking Our Time
- Publisher
- Quattro Books
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2014
- Category
- Personal Memoirs, Divine Mother, The Goddess, Quan Yin, Phenomenology
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781927443606
- Publish Date
- Apr 2014
- List Price
- $25.00
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
Sweet Nothing is an eco-feminist, spiritual and philosophical lament against the increasing speed and fragmentation of modern life. It draws parallels between some of the central ideas of existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis and neo-pagan spirituality, in order to make a case for the slowing down of Being. A philosophical memoir, powerfully woven together by a personal narrative of the Italian immigrant experience.
About the author
Carmela Circelli was born in Southern Italy and grew up in Montreal. She has been teaching on contract for the Philosophy Department at York University for 30 years, and also works as a psychotherapist in private practice in Toronto. In 2014, Quattro Books published her philosophical memoir Sweet Nothing: An Elemental case for Taking out Time. Love and Rain is her first novel.