Consciousness and loneliness : : theoria and praxis / / by Ben Mijuskovic.

• VerfasserIn: Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 327.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (517 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page /; Dedication /; By Way of a Prologue /; Part 1 /; Introduction to the Simplicity Argument and its Relation to Previous Studies /; The Simplicity Argument: Meanings, Relations, and Space /; The Simplicity Argument and the Freedom of Consciousness /; The Simplicity Argument and Immanent Time-Consciousness /; The Simplicity Argument and the Quality of Consciousness /; Neuromania and Neo-Phrenology versus Consciousness /; Part 2 /; The Simplicity Argument versus a Materialist Theory of Mind /; Part 3 /; The Bicameral Mind, the Abyss, and Underworlds /; Loneliness: In Harm’s Way /; Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existentialism /; By Way of an Epilogue /; Back Matter --; Bibliography /; Name Index /; Subject Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004385975
• ISSN: 0929-8436
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Ben Mijuskovic.

Current research claims loneliness is passively caused by external conditions: environmental, cultural, situational, and even chemical imbalances in the brain and hence avoidable. In this book, the author argues that loneliness is actively constituted by acts of reflexive self-consciousness (Kant) and transcendent intentionality (Husserl) and is, therefore, unavoidable. This work employs a historical, conceptual, and interdisciplinary approach (philosophy, psychology, literature, sociology, et cetera) criticizing both psychoanalysis and neuroscience. The book pits materialism, mechanism, determinism, empiricism, phenomenalism, behaviorism, and the neurosciences against dualism, both subjective and objective idealism, rationalism, freedom, phenomenology, and existentialism. It offers a dynamic of loneliness, whose spontaneous subconscious sources undercuts the unconscious of Freud and the “computerism” of the neurosciences by challenging their claims to be predictive sciences.