CONTEMPORARY SOLITUDE explores the joy and pain one feels when alone. The book describes the importance of solitude. It explores the suffering of loneliness, the need for independence, how we seek solitude to avoid relating, or how we can even seek solitude to redeem ourselves, to search for something beyond our present state of being.It describes how solitude is an important and neccessary aspect of the one s life, and helps the reader find solutions to his/her problems. The book also shows how solitude can stagnate a person and block the process of maturing and growth.