About Philip Slater
Philip Elliot Slater was an American sociologist, social critic, author, and playwright. He was the author of 12 books and more than 20 plays, and was a blogger for The Huffington Post. Formerly a professor and chair of the sociology department at Brandeis, he left academia at the age of 44 after writing The Pursuit of Loneliness (1970), a critique of American culture.
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