Resumen

GARCIA PENA, Lilia Leticia. Contemporary loneliness from the work of essential thinkers: analysis and perspectives. Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2019, vol.40, n.86, pp.185-206. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/862019/aot3/garciapenal.

Loneliness is a growing phenomenon in our contemporary societies. Although loneliness is an immemorial human topic, in the current times, marked by a globalized hyper-consumerism, it has reached unprecedented scales in cultural history. This work collects and discusses the reflections on the theme of essential and representative thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries around contemporary solitude. The methodology has an interdisciplinary epistemological base, it is qualitative, panoramic and chronological. The results allow to identify the edges of the problem as well as the elements of sociocultural change involved. The findings can be useful for scholars of the various social and human disciplines.

Palabras llave : Solitude; XX Century; XXI Century; Current Societies; Sociocultural Change.